Lots of of intimate photos of Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, the mistress of the king of Thailand, have allegedly been stolen from her private cellphone and leaked to anti-monarchy activists as revenge porn, as a part of an try to “sabotage” her return.
Greater than 1,400 selfies, a lot of them sexually express, had been reportedly stolen and anonymously leaked in a cyberattack that coincides together with her return to the palace after being imprisoned final yr by king Maha Vajiralongkorn.
The personal photos of the royal consort had been additionally despatched to British commentator Andrew MacGregor Marshall and tutorial Pavin Chachavalpongpun who resides in Japan and faces felony prosecution in Thailand for critiquing the monarchy.
“The pictures are clearly from Koi’s private telephones,” Marshall tweeted on 22 November. “A lot of the photographs are pictures she took of herself, and dozens of them are very express. It appears possible that she had taken these express pictures of herself to ship to Vajiralongkorn.”
Marshall additional wrote that the photographs had been despatched to him shortly earlier than Ms Wongvajirapakdi’s launch from Lat Yao girls’s jail in Bangkok to rejoin the king with all her royal titles and privileges restored.
Popularly often called Koi, Ms Wongvajirapakdi, 35, graduated from the Military Nursing School in 2008 and accomplished army programs in fight, jungle warfare and night time parachuting. She additionally served within the king’s royal bodyguard unit, reaching the rank of Main Common.
In August 2019, Ms Wongvajirapakdi was elevated to the place of the “royal consort” simply three months after the king’s marriage to his fourth spouse, queen Suthida.
She was, nonetheless, stripped of her title and army ranks simply months after she was accused of “disloyalty” and of in search of to undermine the place of the monarch’s spouse. In an official assertion, the palace accused Ms Wongvajirapakdi of being “dishonourable, missing gratitude [and of] disobedience towards the king and the queen”.
She was, nonetheless, launched from detention in September this yr after spending ten months at a correctional facility and has now been declared “untainted.”
Ms Wongvajirapakdi’s return to the palace “was bitterly opposed” by factions supporting queen Suthida and princess Bajrakitiyabha, wrote Marshall including, “it’s extremely possible the photographs of Koi had been leaked in an effort to sabotage her return as Vajiralongkorn’s consort.”