Hteik Su Phaya Gyi

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Hteik Su Phaya Gyi
Royal Princess Hteik Su Phaya Gyi.jpg
At her home in Yangon
BornHteik Su Phaya Gyi
(1923-04-05) 5 April 1923 (age 98)
Rangoon (now Yangon), Burma, British Raj
Spouse
Maung Maung Khin
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(m. 1943; died 1984)​
DynastyKonbaung
FatherKo Ko Naing
MotherMyat Phaya Galay
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

Princess Hteik Su Phaya Gyi (Burmese: ထိပ်စုဘုရားကြီး; born 5 April 1923, also known as Su Su Khin or Pwar May) is a Princess of Burma and most senior member of the Royal House of Konbaung.[1] She is the daughter of Princess Myat Phaya Galay and the granddaughter of the last king of Burma Thibaw Min and Supayalat.[2][3][4][5]

Upon the death of her younger brother Taw Phaya in 2019, she became the last living grandchild of King Thibaw.

Biography[]

Hteik Su Phaya Gyi was born on 5 April 1923 in Rangoon, British Burma, to parents Ko Ko Naing, a former monk and Princess Myat Phaya Galay, the fourth daughter of King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat.[6][7]

She attended the Catholic School in Moulmein. She was employed at the US and Australian embassies in Rangoon, and later as a private school teacher.[8]

In 1936, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi received an engaged offer[9] to King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand, elder brother of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej. But World War II has started at that time.[9] At that time Hteik Su Phaya Gyi was figuratively known as the "Queen consort of Thailand".[10][11]

Hteik Su Phaya Gyi and her husband Maung Maung Khin

In 1943, she married to Maung Maung Khin, a descendant of the Mon royal family. He was the nephew of the Premier Ba Maw and brother of Khin Kyi, a wife of her younger brother Taw Phaya Gyi. Maung Maung Khin died at Rangoon in 1984. She has three sons and two daughters.

Documentary film[]

In 2017, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi and her younger brother Taw Phaya, nephew Soe Win, niece Devi Thant Sin appeared as the main characters of We Were Kings, a documentary film by Alex Bescoby and Max Jones. The film premiered in Mandalay on 4 November 2017 at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival and also screened in Thailand at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.[12] The film is about Myanmar's history, but also about the descendants of the last kings of Burma who lived unassuming lives in modern Myanmar, unrecognized and unknown.[13][14]

Family[]

She has three sons and two daughters:

  • Win Khin. birth at Rangoon, 1945.
  • Kyaw Khin. birth at Rangoon, 1948.
  • Aung Khin. birth at Rangoon, 1953. Artist. He d. from a cerebral haemorrhage, October 2008.
  • Cho Cho Khin. birth at Rangoon, 1943.
  • Devi Khin. birth at Rangoon, 1951.

Ancestry[]

References[]

  1. ^ "အလုပ်အကိုင် ခက်ခဲစွာ ရှာဖွေရပ်တည် ခဲ့ရရှာတဲ့ ကုန်းဘောင်မင်းဆက် အနွယ်တော်ရဲ့ ဘဝဖြတ်သန��းမှု". Mizzima (in Burmese). 27 January 2016.
  2. ^ Kelly Macnamara (25 November 2013). "Lost Kingdom: The forgotten Royal family". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  3. ^ "Lost kingdom: Myanmar's forgotten royals". The Star (Malaysia). 8 November 2013. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  4. ^ "Understanding the old kingdom in the new Myanmar". The Myanmar Times. 25 February 2013.
  5. ^ "Planète. La princesse oubliée". Le Républicain Lorrain (in French). 1 December 2013.
  6. ^ Jared Downing (19 April 2016). "Dinner with the princess of Burma". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  7. ^ Ben Dunant (2 December 2017). "Myanmar's living royals reclaim their past". The Nikkei. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
  8. ^ "Interview with Hteik Su Phar Gyi". MM Cities YouTube Channel.
  9. ^ Jump up to: a b "ထိပ်စုဘုရားကြီးနဲ့ ထိုင်းဘုရင်လောင်း". BBC (in Burmese). 26 October 2017.
  10. ^ "သီပေါမင်းအလွန် ထိုင်း မြန်မာအနွယ် တော်ဝင်မိသားစုကြား ရွှေလမ်းငွေလမ်းခရီး". Kumudra. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  11. ^ "သီပေါနောက်က တော်ဘုရားများ". BBC News (in Burmese). 10 February 2019.
  12. ^ Jim Pollard (10 February 2018). "The right to remember Myanmar's last king". Asia Times.
  13. ^ Zuzakar Kalaung (2 November 2017). "We Were Kings: Burma's lost royal family". The Myanmar Times.
  14. ^ "Documentary About Forgotten Myanmar Royalty Premieres in Mandalay". The Irrawaddy. 6 November 2017.

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