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Getty ImagesThe world will be watching as King Charles III is crowned in a ceremony steeped in ancient tradition on 6 May. But in other monarchies around the globe there are equally extraordinary coronation moments.
From a crawling Queen to a throne so sacred it can never be sat on, here’s a look at how some of the world’s remaining monarchies celebrate their kings and queens.
“Monarchy runs on ritual and ceremony”, says Dr Elena Woodacre, a reader in renaissance history at the University of Winchester.
“There are elements you tend to see in different coronations”, she explains, “there’s always some kind of installation or enthronement. There’s usually regalia or ritual clothing and the sacred elements like the anointing.”
“These elements are important both for reaffirming the sovereign’s role but also reaffirming the relationship between the monarch and the subject”, she adds.
King Charles III is anointed using holy oil made with a secret recipe. The Archbishop of Canterbury anoints the King’s head, chest and hands in what is considered to be the most sacred part of the ceremony emphasising the spiritual status of the sovereign who is also the head of the Church of England.
In Thailand, a similar part of the coronation ceremony involves water being poured over the new monarch to “purify” and anoint them.
The water is collected from more than 100 sources across the country between 11:52 and 12:38 local time, a special time in Thai astrology, and then blessed in Buddhist ceremonies.
At the most recent Thai coronation, of King Maha Vajiralongkorn, his wife Queen Suthida crawled and knelt on the floor in front of him.
The posture is a traditional display of respect in a part of the ceremony known as the installation of the Queen.
The King poured anointment water from a conch shell onto Queen Suthida and granted her royal rank and status.
King Charles sits on the ancient Coronation Chair for much of the service.
Made from oak and more than 700 years old, it’s the oldest piece of furniture in the United Kingdom still used for its original purpose.
The chair is designed to contain the Stone of Destiny, a historic symbol used in the inauguration of Scottish kings.
The Asantehene has ruled over the Ashanti region of Ghana since the 1700s.
The most sacred object in Ashanti culture is the Golden Stool, known as the Sika Dwa Kofi, which is believed to represent the “soul” of the Ashanti people.
The stool is so holy nobody is allowed to sit on it – not even the monarch – so during the coronation the new Asantehene is raised and lowered over the stool without sitting on it.
However, in 1900 the British Governor of the Gold Coast, Sir Frederick Hodgson, demanded to sit on the Golden Stool and ordered soldiers to hunt for it.
This search sparked a revolt led by the Asante Queen Mother, Yaa Asantewaa. She was eventually defeated and Asante was annexed by the British. Their monarchy was not restored until 1935.
The British monarch’s anointing is considered so sacred and secret, a canopy is held above the King to conceal him from view during this part of the service.
The congregation then shouts, “God Save the King!”
There are similar moments in the enthronement of the Japanese emperor.
During the ceremony, purple curtains are drawn back on a pavilion known as the Takamikura to unveil the Emperor standing in front of a throne, with an ancient sword and jewel beside him.
He read out a formal proclamation, dressed in a yellow-orange robe worn only by emperors on special occasions.
There were then shouts of “Banzai!”, meaning “long live the emperor”.
King Charles attended the enthronement along with hundreds of foreign dignitaries.
The UK monarch dons special coronation robes. As they enter Westminster Abbey, the soon-to-be-crowned sovereign wears a long red velvet robe of state, adorned with hand embroidered gold lace, and lined in expensive white fur called ermine.
They wear a different robe at the end. At the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, she wore a seven-metre-long silk gown which had taken 3,500 hours to embroider with the emblems of the UK and Commonwealth in 18 different types of gold and silver thread.
The Zulu King is one of the most influential of South Africa’s eight monarchs and also wears special clothing during their coronation.
In the traditional Zulu ceremony, the sovereign enters a sacred cattle enclosure to call for the support of their ancestors and wears the hide of a lion they hunted to prove they are the chosen one.
At his crowning ceremony in 2022, King Misuzulu ka Zwelithini wore leopard print and feathers as he was given a certificate of recognition by the South African President.
Crowns are one of the most important elements of any coronation ritual, a visual symbol that marks the monarch as ruler.
In the UK, King Charles III will be crowned with the St Edward’s Crown, made of a solid gold frame set with rubies and sapphires. It’s the only time during his reign that it will ever be used.
Towards the end of the coronation ceremony King Charles will put on the 2.3lbs (1.06kg) Imperial State Crown, which is also used for official occasions like the opening of Parliament.
In Lesotho, a calfskin headband and feather are put on the new monarch’s head by two traditional chiefs during their coronation.
They also wear traditional animal skins and a blue tunic with an embroidered gold crocodile during the ceremony with songs and dancing.
The crowning of Letsie III took place at a sports stadium in the capital city Maseru. It was attended by King Charles and Nelson Mandela, who was then president of South Africa.
BBC TeluguIt’s been three decades but Uma Krishnaiah clearly remembers the last conversation she had with her husband, just hours before his murder.
It was 5 December 1994 and the couple had woken up early as G Krishnaiah, a top civil servant in the northern Indian state of Bihar, had to leave home at 5am to travel to an important meeting in Hajipur, a town more than 130km (81 miles) away.
“It was a freezing cold morning but he was walking on the lawns. I asked him to come inside because I was worried he would catch a cold,” she told me.
“But he told me not to worry. He said there are so many poor people who don’t even have warm clothes. I’m wearing a sweater, I’m dressed warmly, nothing will happen to me.”
Hours later, Mrs Krishnaiah was standing in a hospital, looking at her husband’s bloodied body. “He had so many injuries on his face and body,” she said, her voice breaking with emotion.
Krishnaiah – whom journalists and former colleagues remember as “an honest and upright officer” and “a good administrator” – was returning from the meeting when his car was stopped by a mob protesting against the killing a day earlier of Chhotan Shukla, a dreaded gangster-turned-politician.
The mob, comprising thousands of Shukla’s supporters, pelted the officer’s car with stones, dragged him out and started beating him.
“Krishnaiah, who was the district magistrate for Gopalganj, kept trying to tell the mob that he had nothing to do with the Shukla murder, which took place in an adjoining district,” says Amarnath Tiwari, senior journalist in the state capital, Patna.
“But the crowd lynched him and one man shot him in the head. Police later retrieved his bloodied body from the scene of the crime.”
The murder turned Mrs Krishnaiah’s life upside down. The brazenness of the crime and the brutality with her husband was murdered also sent shockwaves through the country and made national headlines.
Three decades later, the gruesome crime is back in the news after Anand Mohan Singh, who had been serving a life sentence for the civil servant’s murder, walked out of prison this week.
Singh, then a legislator in the state assembly, was charged in the murder case with inciting the crowd to attack and shoot the official.
In 2007, a local court convicted him and gave him the death penalty. A year later, the Patna high court converted it into a life sentence, which was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2012.
Until recently, Singh couldn’t be freed because according to Bihar’s jail manual, “those convicted for murdering a public servant on duty” were not entitled to early release.
But earlier this month, the state government, led by Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, dropped the clause from the manual and announced the release of 27 prisoners, including Singh.
The decision has been criticised by some opposition politicians, activists and citizens, with many comparing Singh’s release with last August’s decision by the Gujarat government to set free convicts in the notorious gangrape of a Muslim woman and murder of her family during deadly 2002 religious riots. Gujarat officials said a state government panel had approved their release because the men had spent more than 14 years in jail and because of other factors such as their age.
The association of civil servants has asked the Bihar government to reconsider its decision.
“Such dilution leads to impunity, erosion of morale of public servants, undermines public order and makes a mockery of administration of justice,” it said in a statement on Twitter.
But the Bihar state government and Singh have defended the move, saying it isn’t illegal. “He has served his sentence and is being released legally,” Bihar’s Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav told reporters.
However, Mr Tiwari says the decision is rooted in politics.
“Singh commands influence among the upper-caste Rajput community which makes up 4% of the state’s population. And the state’s governing alliance, led by Mr Kumar and Mr Yadav, wants his support in next year’s general elections,” he told the BBC.
But away from the political ping pong, the decision has been greeted with dismay by the Krishnaiah family, for whom it has reopened old wounds.
Mrs Krishnaiah told me she had met her husband, who was from a poor Dalit (formerly untouchable) family, at college in the southern city of Hyderabad in 1981. They fell in love and married five years later. At the time of his murder, they were raising two daughters who were four and five-and-a-half.
A day after his death, she moved back with her children to Hyderabad where she took up a job as a college teacher to support the family.
Singh’s conviction and sentencing had brought her some solace, but to see him walk out of prison has left her heartbroken and distraught.
“My husband was a government officer. He was killed while working. How can they set free his murderer? The government should reconsider the decision,” she said.
“This will send wrong signals to the society and encourage criminals. They will now think that even if they commit a heinous murder, they will go free.”
Mrs Krishnaiah said she had appealed to the prime minister and the president, seeking their intervention to send her husband’s murderer back to prison.
On Thursday morning, hours after Singh walked out of prison, her daughter Padma told news agency ANI that the family was “disheartened”.
“I request Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to give a second thought. His government has set a wrong example. It is unfair not just to a family but to the whole nation,” she said, adding that they would appeal against the decision in court.
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KANCHANABURI: Forty-two job seekers from Myanmar were arrested after illegally crossing the border into Sangkhla Buri district late on Wednesday night, authorities said yesterday.
Soldiers, border patrol police and immigration officers were despatched to tambon Nong Lu following a tip-off that a group of suspicious-looking people had been found in a forested area in Song Kalia village, said Col Thatchadet Arbuarat, deputy commander of the army’s Lat Ya task force, who was alerted at about 10pm.
By the time the officers arrived, there was no one at the scene. The same informant told them that the people had boarded a vehicle headed towards a pier at Wat Wang Wiwekaram in Wang Ka village Moo 2 in tambon Nong Lu.
The team later found the men and women gathered near Vajiralongkorn Dam behind the pier. On seeing the officers, they ran into a nearby forest. All 42 people — 27 men and 15 women — were subsequently caught. All were Myanmar nationals without travel documents.
During questioning, they said that they had travelled from Mandalay, Bago, Yangon and other parts of Myanmar. They entered Thailand via a natural crossing in Sangkhla Buri and were heading to promised jobs in Bangkok, Chon Buri, Phuket, Samut Prakan, Samut Sakhon and Rayong. Some were promised jobs in Malaysia.
The migrants told officers they had agreed to pay between 20,000 and 30,000 baht each to job brokers. The money was to be paid when they arrived at their destinations.
They were taken for body temperature checks as part of Covid-19 screening. All were normal. They were handed over to police at the Sangkhla Buri station for legal proceedings. Large numbers of migrants continue to cross into Thailand illegally every day from Myanmar, where economic conditions have deteriorated considerably since the military seized power two years ago.
About 80,000 illegal border crossers, the vast majority of them from Myanmar, were estimated to have been caught in 2021. But as many as 100,000 more probably slipped past authorities and were now employed in various parts of the country, say groups that work with migrants.
The Appeals Court yesterday reversed a lower court’s decision to acquit a suspect charged with lese majeste over remarks deemed offensive to the monarchy.
According to the Thai Lawyers for Human Rights, the Appeals Court found the defendant, identified only as Wutthipat, guilty of violating Section 112 of the Criminal Code.
Judges reasoned that his comment on Facebook’s Royalists Marketplace page was offensive to a former king and the current monarch.
The court initially sentenced him to five years in jail, but due to his making a statement useful to the hearing, the court commuted it to three years and four months.
The defendant was released on bail pending an appeal at the Supreme Court.
On June 2, 2020, Mr Wutthipat posted the comment online about the passing of King Ananda Mahidol, or King Rama VIII, in 1946.
On July 19, 2021, Siwaphan Manitkul, a private citizen, filed a police complaint accusing Mr Wutthipat of violating Section 112, as well as the Computer Crime Act.
During the court’s witness hearings on March 1-2 of last year, Mr Wutthipat admitted he had posted the comment and made a reference to King Rama IX, the younger brother of King Rama VIII, though he argued Section 112 did not cover past kings.
The Samut Prakan Provincial Court dismissed the case, reasoning that even though the defendant had posted a comment referencing King Rama IX with offensive remarks, Section 112 only protects the current king, queen, heir to the throne and regent.
People living in communities covering more than 300,000 rai in a reserved forest zone in Chiang Mai’s Mae Chaem district have been granted the right to stay in the forest, a senior official at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment has said.
Jatuporn: Must aidreplanting effort
Jatuporn Buruspat, the ministry’s permanent secretary, said these local communities had become a successful model for the Department of Royal Forest as per a cabinet resolution made several years ago.
The ministry recently granted rights to Mae Chaem district communities under the condition that people in the community work with the department in protecting and rehabilitating the forest.
Mr Jatuporn said that the ministry has a clear direction for dealing with forest land conflicts, especially for those communities living in the sensitive forest areas of watershed zones 1 and 2.
The cabinet, on Nov 26, 2018, agreed with a department proposal to deal with forest land conflicts by allowing members of the local community to stay in the forest on condition they assist with the planting of trees and work with the authority to prevent further forest encroachment.
“We have let them [people in local communities in Mae Chaem district] stay in the forest under the forest law B.E. 2507,” Mr Jatuporn said. “It will help them have a more secure living place and better living conditions with basic infrastructure provided.”
“This could be a model for other forest communities. We will work together to rehabilitate the forest by increasing the green area and preventing any further forest encroachment,” he said.
To deal with forest land conflicts in the district, the department has categorised local residents into four groups to implement measures to end long-term problems based on the cabinet’s 2018 resolution.
According to the resolution, the department has allocated 24,196 rai along watershed zones 3, 4 and 5, where some activities are permitted relating to land allocation to people in need, who are considered the first group.
The second group are those who have lived in the forest after a cabinet resolution on June 30, 1998.
They now live in watershed zones 3,4 and 5 zones with 46 villages on 12,590 rai. To manage the land, the local administrative organisation will set up commercial tree-planting projects.
The third and fourth groups are people who have lived in the fertile watershed 1 and 2 zones after and before the cabinet’s resolution on June 30, 1998. They can stay on the 356,814 rai, with authorities recommending land use measures to protect and preserve the forest and water, including measures to plant three kinds of trees with four benefits initiated by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej The Great.
Previously, past governments had exercised the cabinet’s 1998 resolution to identify forest encroachers. This waived legal action against the persons who lived in the forest before the cabinet’s resolution was made. But it could not deal with forest encroachment.
Police are preparing more charges against Sararat “Am” Rangsiwuthaporn, a woman suspected of being involved in the deaths of over a dozen people.
Crime Suppression Division investigators are looking to obtain statements from two key people in connection with the case, CSD deputy commander Pol Col Anek Taosupap said yesterday.
They were identified as Kantima “Pla” Phaesa-ard, 36, who survived a poisoning attempt allegedly made by the suspect, and Raphee Chamnarnrue, who took the family of a dead woman to file a police complaint.
Pol Col Anek said he had assigned another team to meet with doctors who specialise in poisons and chemicals to learn more about the dangers of cyanide and determine the amount needed to harm someone and cause death.
The information is expected to be included in a police report together with test results showing toxic substances in the body of one of the victims linked to the suspect.
“We are confident that we have firm evidence to prosecute […] the suspect in the case,” Pol Col Anek said. “Now, police investigators are preparing to press additional charges, aside from the premeditated murder charge.”
The additional charges are premeditated murder with intent to steal property, poisoning and theft, he said, adding “some offences carry the death penalty”.
Other leads the police are expected to follow are related to the suspect’s alleged involvement in money lending and a pyramid scheme.
Ms Sararat, 36, ex-wife of a senior police officer in Ratchaburi province, was apprehended on Tuesday at the government office complex on Chaeng Wattana Road in Bangkok by CSD police with an arrest warrant issued by the Criminal Court. She had a bottle of cyanide in her possession and refused to give police a statement.
Her arrest followed a complaint filed by the mother and elder sister of the late Siriporn “Koy” Khanwong, 32, from Kanchanaburi. Siriporn collapsed and died on a bank of the Mae Klong River in Ban Pong district of Ratchaburi, where she allegedly had gone with Ms Sararat to release fish for merit-making on April 14. Cyanide was found in the victim’s bloodstream.
Investigators believed that Ms Sararat might have mixed cyanide in Siriporn’s food, causing her death. She allegedly also stole the victim’s valuables.
Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, deputy national police chief, said yesterday that one more dead victim in Nakhon Pathom has been found, bringing the total number to 13.
On Wednesday, the Criminal Court approved a police request to further detain Ms Sararat without bail on a charge of killing Siriporn.
Pol Col Anek said investigators had called Nipawan Khanwong, 35, the elder sister of Siriporn, who was with her sister before her death, to give a statement yesterday. Ms Nipawan had reportedly asked the suspect about the death.
Investigators are seeking to question a Mukdahan man whose wife had allegedly been given capsules by the suspect, who said they were a tonic. The woman is said to have consumed the capsules before she died.
Police are also looking into whether Ms Sararat’s elder sister, a pharmacist, was involved in the provision or use of cyanide. The initial investigation, however, showed that the suspect had purchased cyanide from another channel, Pol Col Anek added.
At this stage, investigators have not yet found any other people involved, and they believe Ms Sararat had acted alone, he said.
Initial questioning of the suspect did not indicate any mental problems that might have led to the crimes. She spoke as a normal person, Pol Col Anek said.
Cyanide is a controlled substance used in industries and cannot be purchased at drug stores.
A source close to the investigation said Ms Sararat had reportedly purchased cyanide online. Five teenagers called in for questioning told police she brought them five parcels containing bottles of drugs with her name as the recipient and asked them to bury them, the source said.
They claimed she had paid them 500 baht to do the job, the source said.
One of them reportedly suspected what was inside the parcels, so he opened one and sniffed one of the bottles. He reportedly developed symptoms, including dizziness and confusion, for about three days.
As it turned out, the teenagers never got around to burying the bottles she gave them because they were busy celebrating Songkran, the source said. Ms Sararat phoned them to ask whether they had done what she asked, but by then it was too late as police had already found the bottles, the source said.
CHON BURI: The US Navy is prepared to go anywhere in the “free and open Indo-Pacific”, said a spokesman for a carrier strike group visiting Thailand this week.
The Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is on an 11-month patrol mission in the US 7th Fleet area of operations that began last November. It has just finished taking part in drills with Japan and South Korea, said Lt Ben Bushong, spokesman for the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz. It has also taken part in exercises with the Philippines.
During its mission, the carrier strike group passed through disputed parts of the South China Sea without any problem because it was “a free and open Indo-Pacific”, he said.
Lt Bushong did not mention the group’s next destinations after its visit to Thailand but said it was planning to visit all areas in the region.
He said the USS Nimitz was given the nickname “the Old Salt” as it has been at sea for 48 years.
It has almost 5,000 crew, 15% of whom are female, he added.
USS Nimitz was commissioned on May 3, 1975, and named after Fleet Admiral Chester W Nimitz, who achieved the highest rank in the United States Navy as Commander in Chief, Pacific Fleet during World War II.
USS Nimitz is 1,092 feet long, 252 feet wide and 244 feet high, or as high as a 23-storey building.
It displaces 97,000 tonnes and uses two nuclear reactors to provide virtually unlimited range and endurance, as well as a top speed in excess of 30 knots.
The carrier strike group arrived in Thailand on Monday and is scheduled to stay at the Laem Chabang port until tomorrow. Its personnel have been granted shore leave in Pattaya and Chon Buri. “We like to visit Thailand,” Lt Bushong said.
It arrived with the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers USS Decatur and USS Wayne E Meyer and a squadron of F/A-18 combat aircraft.
“Thailand is the oldest friend and ally of the United States in Asia. Our friendship spans two centuries, and we have accomplished so much together,” US Ambassador to Thailand Robert F Godec said on Wednesday aboard the USS Nimitz.
“This year, we are privileged to celebrate the 190th anniversary of formal diplomatic relations,” the ambassador said.
BJT eyes kitchen hub goal, NPL vows jobs
The Pheu Thai Party has reaffirmed its plan to shore up rubber prices as it met farmers in Thung Song district of Nakhon Si Thammarat on Thursday.
The party’s leading figures took their campaign to the district, a key logistical centre located between the Andaman and the Gulf of Thailand.
The party says it is tailoring its campaign policies to southern voters based on input from labour groups there.
On Thursday, labour groups told the party tapping and selling rubber was the only source of income for most families in the district. The low rubber prices have kept them from making ends meet.
Despite a sufficient supply of rubber, road connectivity and more warehouses were needed for the effective distribution of the commodity. The groups also asked Pheu Thai to upgrade Thung Song to a province if the party forms the next government.
Srettha Thavisin, a Pheu Thai prime ministerial candidate, said when the party was in power, it tried to negotiate with the world’s major rubber producers to maintain high rubber prices.
The party also supports technological innovations that increase latex yields, he said.
He said the country’s exports must be promoted overseas to help open up new markets such as the Middle East and Africa.
Mr Srettha said even though the party never won a seat in the South while it was in power, the Pheu Thai-led administration was committed to working for the benefit of the region and its residents.
Kitchen allure
The Bhumjaithai Party is confident of securing a clean sweep in Mae Hong Son by offering to turn the upper northern province into the main supplier of farm produce for the “Thai Global Kitchen” project, it said.
At a campaign stop in the province’s central stadium on Thursday, party leader Anutin Charnvirakul said the party had designed an election policy specifically for the province.
Nanthiya Wongwanich, Bhumjaithai’s candidate in Constituency 1, told the crowd of supporters the party would boost employment and income while also widening people’s access to public health facilities. The mountainous province is hard to reach in many places.
She added the transport network, telecommunications, and farming sector would all be upgraded. At the same time, fine dust pollution in the region would be reduced, she noted.
Bhumjaithai supervises the public health and transport ministries.
The candidate said the party has figured out ways to designate land in the province for growing organic fruit and vegetables to be supplied as fresh ingredients for cooking Thai food overseas under the “Thai Global Kitchen” project.
The province will also be marketed as a cultural tourism destination with abundant natural landscapes, she said.
Workers upgrade
The Nation Building Labour Party (NLP) has vowed to provide permanent jobs to temporary employees in the state sector if it is able to form the next government.
NLP leader Manas Kosol said the party has been compiling input from workers nationwide, who are its main target in terms of voters, and using this to formulate its policies.
He and other party executives were touring the Soi Thep Prathanporn community while on the campaign trail in Khlong Luang district of Pathum Thani yesterday.
Mr Manas said the party’s goal was to lift the standard of living for workers.
He said the NLP’s policies were centred on tackling bread-and-butter issues through practical policies designed by a working group comprising labour and legal experts as well as owners of small and medium-sized enterprises.
NLP spokesman Sornsart Namuang said if the party was part of the next government, it would push to have temporary-contract workers in state agencies elevated to the status of civil servants.
The temporary contracts have taken away workers’ career advancement and made them insecure about their job prospects, he said.
Activist Veera Somkwamkid says he is seeking to impeach members of the National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) for ignoring a court order to disclose details about their investigation into the luxury wristwatch saga involving Deputy Prime Minister Prawit Wongsuwon.
Mr Veera, in an interview with the Isra News Agency, accused the NACC of defying the order by the Supreme Administrative Court, which ruled the disclosure must be completed within 15 days of the order being passed on April 21.
The NACC reportedly decided in a 5-to-1 vote on Wednesday not to reveal the details of its probe, reasoning it may need to refer the matter to the Constitutional Court for help with interpretation.
The commission said the investigation contained accounts of several individuals in the case, which were confidential. The agency indicated it might need the Constitutional Court’s opinion on how far it can go in terms of disclosing details.
In December 2018, the NACC found there were no grounds for claims that Gen Prawit had falsely declared his wealth when he did not include 22 luxury watches and rings in his list of assets. Gen Prawit claimed they belonged to friends and had been returned. Mr Veera later petitioned the Supreme Administrative Court requesting the disclosure order, which was subsequently granted.
Yesterday, Mr Veera said that he would work with Somchai Srisutthiyakorn, chairman of Seri Ruam Thai’s policy steering committee and a former election commissioner, to mount a campaign aimed at collecting at least 20,000 signatures to launch the impeachment process against the commissioners over their failure to follow the order.
On his Facebook page, Mr Veera also alleged that by failing to comply with the court’s order, the commission, as an anti-graft agency, has clearly ignored the law it is supposed to enforce.