Hteik Su Phaya Gyi
Hteik Su Phaya Gyi | |
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Born | Hteik Su Phaya Gyi 5 April 1923 Rangoon (now Yangon), British Burma |
Died | 31 December 2021 (aged 98) Yangon, Myanmar |
Spouse | Maung Maung Khin
(m. 1943; died 1984) |
Dynasty | Konbaung |
Father | Ko Ko Naing |
Mother | Myat Phaya Galay |
Religion | Theravada Buddhism |
Princess Hteik Su Phaya Gyi (Burmese: ထိပ်စုဘုရားကြီး pronounced [tʰeɪʔ sṵ pʰə.yá dʑí]; 5 April 1923 – 31 December 2021), also known as Su Su Khin or Pwar May or Princess Tessie,[1] was a Burmese princess and the final surviving royal of the Konbaung dynasty. Daughter of Princess Myat Phaya Galay, a daughter of the last king of Burma,[2][3][4] she was a senior member of the Royal House of Konbaung.[5]
Upon the death of her younger brother Taw Phaya in 2019, she became the last living grandchild of King Thibaw.[1]
Life[edit]
Hteik Su Phaya Gyi was born on 5 April 1923 in Rangoon, British Burma, to Ko Ko Naing and Princess Myat Phaya Galay, the fourth daughter of King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat.[6][7] She went to a Catholic school in Moulmein and was employed at the U.S. and Australian embassies in Rangoon.[8]
In 1936, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi received an offer of engagement to King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand, elder brother of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej,[9] leading to widespread expectations that she would be the future queen consort.[10] She sought to bring King Thibaw's body back to Myanmar as part of her family's mission.[11]
In 1943, she married Maung Maung Khin, a descendant of the Mon royal family, who was a nephew of the Premier Ba Maw and a brother of Khin Kyi, wife of her younger brother Taw Phaya Gyi.[1] Maung Maung Khin died at Rangoon in 1984.[9]
She died on 31 December 2021 at a Buddhist monastery in Yangon, at the age of 98.[12][13] Her funeral was held at Yayway Cemetery in Yangon on 2 January 2022. She was survived by twenty grandchildren and seventeen great-grandchildren.[14]
Documentary film[edit]
In 2017, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi and her younger brother Taw Phaya, her nephew Soe Win, and her 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.[15] 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.[16][17]
Family[edit]
She had three sons and two daughters: Win Khin (b. 1945), Kyaw Khin (b. 1948), Aung Khin (1953 – October 2008), Cho Cho Khin (b. 1943), and Devi Khin (b. 1951).[18]
Ancestry[edit]
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References[edit]
- ^ a b c "သီပေါနောက်က တော်ဘုရားများ". BBC News (in Burmese). 10 February 2019.
- ^ "Understanding the old kingdom in the new Myanmar". The Myanmar Times. 25 February 2013.
- ^ "Planète. La princesse oubliée". Le Républicain Lorrain (in French). 1 December 2013.
- ^ "ထိပ်စုဖုရားကြီးနဲ့ သမိုင်းအမွေ (Hteik Su Phaya Gyi and Historical Heritage)". VOA Burmese (in Burmese). 12 November 2013.
- ^ "အလုပ်အကိုင် ခက်ခဲစွာ ရှာဖွေရပ်တည် ခဲ့ရရှာတဲ့ ကုန်းဘောင်မင်းဆက် အနွယ်တော်ရဲ့ ဘဝဖြတ်သန်းမှု". Mizzima (in Burmese). 27 January 2016.
- ^ Jared Downing (19 April 2016). "Dinner with the princess of Burma". Frontier Myanmar. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Ben Dunant (2 December 2017). "Myanmar's living royals reclaim their past". The Nikkei. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ Kelly Macnamara (25 November 2013). "Lost Kingdom: The forgotten Royal family". The Myanmar Times. Retrieved 20 August 2018.
- ^ a b "ထိပ်စုဘုရားကြီးနဲ့ ထိုင်းဘုရင်လောင်း". BBC (in Burmese). 26 October 2017.
- ^ "သီပေါမင်းအလွန် ထိုင်း မြန်မာအနွယ် တော်ဝင်မိသားစုကြား ရွှေလမ်းငွေလမ်းခရီး". Kumudra. Archived from the original on 29 September 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
- ^ "သီပေါမင်း ရုပ်ကလာပ်တော် ပြန်သယ်ရန် ကြိုးပမ်း". Frontier Myanmar (in Burmese). 30 March 2017.
- ^ Fame, Asian (31 December 2021). "သီပေါမင်းရဲ့ မြေးတော်ထိပ်စုဖုရားကြီး ကံတော်ကုန်ရှာ". Popular News Journal (in Burmese).
- ^ "သီပေါမင်းနှင့် မိဖုရားခေါင်ကြီး စုဖုရားလတ်တို့၏ မြေးတော် ထိပ်စုဘုရားကြီး နတ်ရွာစံကံတော်ကုန်". Eleven Media Group (in Burmese). 31 December 2019.
- ^ "Funeral of last surviving grandchild of Myanmar's King Thibaw held in Yangon". The Star. 4 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
- ^ Jim Pollard (10 February 2018). "The right to remember Myanmar's last king". Asia Times.
- ^ Zuzakar Kalaung (2 November 2017). "We Were Kings: Burma's lost royal family". The Myanmar Times.
- ^ "Documentary About Forgotten Myanmar Royalty Premieres in Mandalay". The Irrawaddy. 6 November 2017.
- ^ a b Shah, Sudha (14 June 2012). The King In Exile: The Fall Of The Royal Family Of Burma. Harper Collins. ISBN 978-93-5029-598-4.