Queen Sirikit: Thailand's powerful and glamorous Cold War personality

Her state visits with King Bhumibol helped shape the country's international image

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Queen Sirikit of Thailand at Westminster Abbey in London on July 19, 1960. © Getty Images

DOMINIC FAULDER

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.

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