Bangkok (AFP) – Around a dozen mourners dressed in black hold portraits of Thailand’s late Queen Sirikit outside the Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok, where she had been receiving medical treatment. The mother of the current King Vajiralongkorn and wife of the nation’s longest-reigning monarch died late Friday at the age of 93, the palace said. Sirikit held a dual reputation as a fashionista and the nation’s caring matriarch, with some Western media featuring her on magazine covers and comparing her to former US first lady Jackie Kennedy.
