Is Princess Norodom Arunrasmy Lao? Yes - 50% (1/2 Lao 1/2 Khmer)
Lao Tae Tae
Princess Norodom Arunrasmy (1955) is one of two daughters of King
Norodom Sihanouk and Chao Ying Manivanh. Her sister is Prince Norodom
Sujata (1953).
King Sihanouk and Mom Manivanh do not have a son.
King Sihanouk has 6 wives and Mom Manivanh is the 5th one. The 6th
and last wife of King Sihanouk is Queen Monique (1/2 Khmer 1/2
French). Her actual title and name is Queen Norodom Monineath
Sihanouk. Her are King Sihanouk's wives and children:
1- Firts wife - Neak M'neang Phat Kantol (2 children)
* Princess Bopha Devi (1943)
* Prince Ranariddh (1944)
2- Second wife - Princess Sisowath Pongsanmoni (7 children)
* Prince Yuvaneath (1943)
* Prince Ravivong (1944)
* Prince Chakrapong (1945)
* Princess Sorya Roeuangsy (1947)
* Princess Kantha Bopha (1948)
* Princess Khemanourak (1949)
* Princess Botum Bopha (1951)
3- Third wife - Princess Sisowat Monikessan (1 child)
* Prince Naradipo (1946)
4- Fourth wife - Princess Kanita Norodom Norleak (no child)
5- Fifth wife - Mom Manivanh (2 children)
* Princess Sujata (1953)
* Princess Arunrasmy (1955)
6- Sixth and last wife - Queen Monique (2 children)
* Prince Sihamoni (1953)
* Prince Narindrapong (1954)
You might notice that Princess Norodom Arunrasmy is the youngest child
of King Sihanouk.
Source: Genealogy of Royalty & Nobility
Hak Pheng,
Lao Tae Tae
rania
Thank you for the info.
rania
Lao Tae Tae
King NORODOM SIHANOUK (1948-1952). She died in 1975. PRINCESS
SUCHATA (Sujata) VATHIYA also died in 1976 (never married). It is not
known whether they were murdered by the Khmer Rouge or died of
illness. It's likely however that they were victims of Polpot's
genocidal regime since several of King Sihanouk's children from other
marriages also died between 1975 and 1978. PRINCESS NORODOM ARUN
RASMY was married to Neak Ang Rajavong SISOWATH SIRIRATH of Khmer
royal descent or Seua Chao (Neak Ang Rajavong is a royal title). They
have 3 children: SISOWATH NAKIA (1975), SISOWATH NANDO (1977), and
SISOWATH SIRIKITH NATHALIE (1979). They all have a royal title 'NEAK
REACH VONG' or equivalent to 'CHAO' in Lao or 'MOM RAJAVONG' in Thai.
PRINCESS NORODOM ARUN RASMY and Neak Ang Rajavong SISOWATH SIRIRATH
are now divorced. PRINCESS NORODOM ARUN RASMY never remarried but her
husband did.
Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~royalty/cambodia/
Lao Tae Tae
laot...@hotmail.com (Lao Tae Tae) wrote in message news:<cc6373f1.03021...@posting.google.com>...
Lao Tae Tae
Cambodian Royal Life" in the Bangkok Post website dated November 10,
1999 and found that our very own Lao Princess Mom Manivanh was in
Bangkok with her daughter Princess Norodom Arunrasmy to promote the
book. Obviously Mom Manivanh had not died in 1975 as stated in the
royal genealogy website.
Here's a portion of the review mentioning the 2 princesses:
"The Bangkok launch of the book takes place this evening (11/10/99) at
the Royal Netherlands residence. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal
Norodom Arunrasmy, the youngest daughter of King Sihanouk and Laotian
Princess Mam Manivan, and Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart
will be the guests of honour."
Here is the whole review of the book:
The Royal Palace of Phnom Penh and Cambodian Royal Life
by Julio A. Jeldres and Somkid Chaijitvanit
Review 2
The Bangkok Post, November 10, 1999
Royal Reflections
by Nusara Thaitawat
Few people in Phnom Penh slept on the last weekend of October as
thousands of residents took to the streets in celebration. From the
very old to the young, people spilled out onto the streets as night
fell for the annual display of lights to mark the birthday of His
Majesty the King of Cambodia who turned 77 on October 31.
The Royal Palace was enchanting, with thousands of lights
strategically placed to show off its best features.
HM King Norodom Sihanouk did not go to the Chanchhaya Pavilion
(Moonlight Pavilion) to greet his loyal subjects and festivities were
quieter this year because of his health. But the streets leading to
the Palace were bustling with people overloading their motorcycles,
cars, and cyclos. A good many were also on foot.
"The palace was not always this beautiful," said King Sihanouk during
a recent one-hour long audience attended by the publishers and
sponsors of the book: The Royal Palace of Phnom Penh and Cambod ian
Royal Life. The book was written by the King's long-time friend and
official biographer Julio JeA. ldres. Pictures for the book were taken
by Outlook photographer Somkid Chaijitvanit.
The King was visibly moved by the book and he recalled how the author
had been a faithful friend over many years.
While the friendship between the Cambodian monarch and the former
Chilean student has been bumpy at times, they share strong bonds of
affection and friendship.
The King also congratulated Ms Somkid for the spectacular pictures
shehad taken for the book.
Pointing to the elegantly restored interior of the Khemarin Palace,
his official residence where the audience took place, King Sihanouk
told of the ups and downs of his life as a Prince, a King, a
President, a Prince and a King again over nearly eight decades.
He recounted the time when he, Queen Monineath and their two sons,
Prince Sihamoni and Prince Narindrapong were held prisoners of the
Khmer Rouge who took control of the country in 1975 after a five-year
civil war with the US-backed Lon Nol government. All of His Majesty's
children who had accompanied him to Cambodia were killed bythe Khmer
Rouge.
Then Prince Sihanouk had been toppled in a coup by Lon Nol in 1970 and
had taken exile in China and North Korea before returning to Cambodia
at the request of the Khmer Rouge in 1975.
"The roof had leaks everywhere," he said. "Each time it rained, we
couldn't sleep." The King held his chest tight and curled up a little
to demonstrate the position in which the politics of his country had
forced him to sleep.
"My wife was a cleaning lady and our children were gardeners," he
said, his expression altering from serious and sad, to happy but
tired.
He said the Khmer Rouge had given him and his family two koupreys
(rare grey oxen which were then almost extinct in Cambodia), and some
goats to be kept at the palace. Thanks to these animals, there was no
need to cut the grass. He also recalled a mango tree that grew behind
the palace which he and his family took great care of in the hope of
tasting its fruit.
"But when the mangoes were ripe, the Khmer Rouge appreciated their
taste, they came and took them all, leaving us only with bananas," he
said.
King Sihanouk, who apologised to his attentive audience for "boring"
them with his little stories, said they came back to him with the
presentation of Mr Jeldres' book, the first such work on the palace
and Cambodian royal life.
He went on to tell how he returned to the throne in 1993 shortly after
the general elections organised by the United Nations were declared a
success.
"I wanted to be Cambodia's Francois Mitterrand, but the communists
wanted to keep power for themselves, so they made me king again," he
said.
"In a way, these communists are good royalists. They restored the
monarchy, they restored the palace, that's why you see all these
samdechs," he said. The King was referring to Samdech Hun Sen and
Samdech Chea Sim, leaders of the ruling Cambodian People's Party.
Samdech is the highest title which can be granted to a male commoner
by the King.
"These communists treat me well," he said.
He also referred to the Chinese and North Korean leaders who were
hishosts during his time in exile. His Majesty still keeps a palace in
Beijing and Pyongyang even after the death of Kim Il Sung.
Mr Jeldres dedicated his book to King Sihanouk with whom he has
corresponded since 1967 when he was a 16-year-old student in Chile. In
1982 he became a member of the King's anti-Vietnamese resistance staff
based in Bangkok. He referred to the King as "a much misunderstood
monarch who deeply cares for his people".
During the book launch in Phnom Penh on November 2, graciously
presided over by the Queen at the Royal Phnom Penh Hotel, Mr Jeldres
said the book was a tribute to the Cambodian monarchy which served as
a stabilising force for the country
Mr Jeldres told Outlook he wished to leave out the contemporary
politics which took place at the palace, and which are well-covered in
other scholarly works, in order to keep his book "positive and happy"
as Cambodia rebuilds after years of war.
Built by King Sihanouk's great-great-grandfather after he left the
former royal capital of Oudong for Phnom Penh in 1866, the palace
gradually saw additions to its compounds through successive kings.
In his foreword to the book, King Sihanouk wrote that, in 1870 the
palace was firmly installed in its present position when the wooden
structures that housed the royal family in the north of the compound
were replaced by stone structures.
From 1915-17, the construction of the Preah Tineang Tevea Vinicchay or
The August Residence of God the Arber took place. That included the
current Throne Hall and other smaller buildings and always used the
traditional Khmer architecture.
These new premises were inaugurated by HM King Sisowath in 1919 and in
1932, King Sihanouk's grandfather, King Monivong, presided over the
construction of the Khermarin Palace.
Mr Jeldres, who drew from various archives for the book, including
King Sihanouk's, explains the concept behind each of the principal
buildings in the palace compound and tells how they were used by
successive Cambodian kings.
He tells about life within the palace walls, both the lives of the
royalty and that of some of the commoners, such as the dancers of the
Royal Ballet.
Many of the archive pictures in the book are published for the first
time.
Alaster Smith, managing director of the Post Publish, the book'
publishers, said in his address in Phnom Penh that he hoped the work
will in some part reveal another of Cambodia's treasures.
"Cambodia has much to excite the eye, the mind and the imagination,
and this book brings to life another of its treasures, here in Phnom
Penh," he said.
The Bangkok launch of the book takes place this evening at the Royal
Netherlands residence. Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal Norodom
Arunrasmy, the youngest daughter of King Sihanouk and Laotian Princess
Mam Manivan, and Deputy Prime Minister Sanan Kachornprasart will be
the guests of honour.
The Royal Palace of Phnom Penh and Cambodian Royal Life
by Julio A. Jeldres and Somkid Chaijitvanit
Review 3
The Cambodia Daily, November 9, 1999
Intimate Look at Royal Palace Makes Debut
by Brian Calvert
Author Julio Jeldres first corresponded with then-Prince Norodom
Sihanouk in 1967, when he was just a high-school student in Chile, He
later became the King's private secretary, and now he is designated
the King's official biographer.
While the full story about King Sihanouk will have to wait, the
frienship between the two men has yielded the book, The Royal Palace
of Phnom Penh and Cambodian Royal Life. which only became available
last week.
With photographer Somkid Chaijitvanit, Jeldres has put to gether 131
awe-inspiring pages, depicting the palace in words and images.
"All the books about Cmbaodia are about politics," the author said in
an interview last week, as he completed a book-signing tour in Phnom
Penh. " All the books about art are about Angkor Wat."
But many of the hallmarks of Cambodian culture have made their way
into the architecture and art of the Royal Palace , a sprawling
complex of building near the convergence of the Tonle Sap, Mekong and
Bassac rivers.
From the very beginning of the book, Cambodia enthusiasts will find
interesting information. " The Royal Palace of Phnom Penh was built by
my great-grandfather, His Majesty King Norodom" King Sihanouk writes
in the foreword, "after he decided to leave the former royal capital
of Oudong in 1866, and established the capital in Phnom Penh."
At that time the Palace was made of wood but by the early 1900s, was
replaced by stone. The book is replete with such snippets by those who
know it best.
And rather than focus on the political bygones of Cambodia, Jeldres,
who was given access to many parts of the palace, recreates mythology,
stories and historical context.
There's the story of the emergence of Cambodia's king, who according
to legend was born of the Naga king, "Lord of the Soil" and an Indian
Brahman priest.
There's the story of the palace's architects and astrologers, who
chose to place the palace by the rivers because they "had the perfect
blend of the movements of the planets and the cycles of the seasons to
make the living environment of the king peaceful, healthy and
prosperous."
Modern, vibrant photos coupled with grainy, sepia pictures from the
archives support the text. The reader is taken on a visual tour, as he
seesthe palace in its infancy and its monarchs in theirs. The reader
learns that in 1920, the King's elephants were tranferred to the south
of Wat Preah Keo Morakat--known now as the Silver
Pagoda, or the Temple of the Emerald Buddha.
In addition to historic treasures are pictures of real ones: gold,
silver, diamonds, emeralds--all a part of the Palace's past and
present.
The book also offers a beginner's guide to a monarchy, outlining the
roles and duties, of the monarch and his family. Full listing of
Cambodia's kings and royal orders are provided, as is a family tree.
There's also a one page glossary.
Lao Tae Tae
is the daughter of King Sihanouk and Laotian Princess Mom Manivanh.
Chao Ying Manivanh and Princess Suchaya were indeed murdered by the
Khmer Rouge.
"Manivani Barni Varman (Manivan Phanivong), styled Mam, °Laos 1934,
+(killed by the Khmer Rouge) Phnom Penh 19/4/1975... Princess Norodom
Sucheat Vathiya, °10/3/1953, +(killed by the Khmer Rouge) Cercle
Sportif, Phnom Penh 20/4/1975."
Source: http://www.almanach.be/search/c/cambodia.html
Economist003
Thank you for your information. Thus, as a new generation we all can
say out loud that prince Noradom Sihanouk was very HORNY and SLUT. Am
I right? Are you on the same page with me on this issue?
How can he had enough white liguid called "SPERM" to shoot at SEVEN
WIVE?i.e. how can seven of them satisfy SEXUALLY? How can they get
enough?
I would like to see Cambodian constitution to allow their king to
have only ONE WIFE.... I do not want to see the king to be
WOMANIZER... Could you tell me if fmr Lao king was POLYGAMMY or not?
Thank you....
L_plusplus
revolution to turn back to Kingdom line ? Why you're keeping talking about others
stuffs... who's his/her parents, it's not concern with you at all... so private
stuffs !
I don't care that my grandpas or grandmas are any Royal families, but for me, who
was born after 1975 or in the age of twenty, we've never care about that STUPID
King... yeah, Laos is so poor right now, 'cos your Stupid king, and people in the
age above sixty... yeah, our Civil war... your stupid king with 3 elephant heads
flag and the Communist backed Govn now...
I really hate old people inside or outside of Laos, 'cos you all ! you'd NOT built
any for your own Homeland... then, we new generations are facing POOR like you see !
