Issued to mark the 90th birthday of Princess Srinagarindra, the Princess Mother and mother of Rama IX, who was born in 1900 to a commoner family — her father sold herbs at a Bangkok market. She trained as a nurse, studied in the United States, and outlived two of her sons who became kings, Ananda Mahidol dying under disputed circumstances in 1946 before Bhumibol took the throne. She died in 1995 at 94, having spent decades funding rural medical and development projects in northern Thailand's hill country.
Issued to mark the 90th birthday of Princess Srinagarindra, the Princess Mother and mother of Rama IX, who was born in 1900 to a commoner family — her father sold herbs at a Bangkok market. She trained as a nurse, studied in the United States, and outlived two of her sons who became kings, Ananda Mahidol dying under disputed circumstances in 1946 before Bhumibol took the throne. She died in 1995 at 94, having spent decades funding rural medical and development projects in northern Thailand's hill country.