
Maha Vajiralongkorn, who on Saturday will be crowned King of Thailand, is an amateur to have fun and fly airplanes, agitated private life, but at the same time is considered a skilled strategist who knows well the Armed Forces that control the country.
In the shadow of the palace walls, they will turn holy water on his head to grant him sovereignty, before moving to the throne room, under the nine-story white umbrella, where he himself will place "the Great Crown of Victory" of gold and diamonds and more than seven kilos of weight.
Three days before this grand ceremony, Maha Vajiralongkorn, three times divorced, was surprised to announce that he had remarried with his long-time partner, a former stewardess of Thai Airways raised to the title of Queen Suthida.
A member of his personal escort, Queen Suthida was promoted to general on the day Vajiralongkorn ascended the throne in 2016.
Maha Vajiralongkorn, 66, the only male heir of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in 2016, has been preparing to ascend the throne since childhood.
"From the first second of my life, I'm a prince, it's hard to say what it feels like to be a fish when you're a fish, a bird when you're a bird," he told the BBC in a rare interview in 1979.