ObituariesQueen Sirikit: Thailand's powerful and glamorous Cold War personality
Her state visits with King Bhumibol helped shape the country's international image
Queen Sirikit of Thailand at Westminster Abbey in London on July 19, 1960. © Getty Images
DOMINIC FAULDER
October 26, 2025 00:08 JST
BANGKOK -- No pictures of Thailand's Queen Sirikit receiving members of the royal family with white cropped hair have been published in recent years, but in the 1960s, she appeared often on the world's magazine covers and was considered one of its most beautiful and best-dressed women.