![]() ![]() Preparations for the funeral took 10 months and the funeral ceremony did not begin until 10 March 1881. The grief-stricken Chulalongkorn demanded a resplendent funeral for them. ![]() ![]() However, this was not the case the King's diary records that boatmen dived into the water, pulled the queen and her daughter from the entangling curtains, and carried them to another boat, where attendants worked in vain to resuscitate them. There is an often repeated myth that the many witnesses to the accident did not dare to touch the queen, a capital offense-not even to save her life. The queen and her daughter Kannabhorn Bejaratana drowned when the steam boat Sorawan collided with their royal boat towed by the steam yacht Pan Marut on the way to the Bang Pa-In Royal Palace (Summer Palace). The kings's other two wives were her younger sisters, Queen Savang Vadhana and Queen Saovabha Bhongsi. She was the half-sister and first wife of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V) of Siam (now Thailand). She was a daughter and fiftieth child of Siamese King Mongkut (Rama IV) and Princess Consort Piam. She was well known as " The Wrecked Queen". Sunanda Kumariratana ( Thai: สุนันทากุมารีรัตน์, RTGS: Sunantha Kumarirat, Sunandākumārīratana 10 November 1860 – ) was a queen consort of Siam. ![]()
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