2026年6月12日 美国东部时间凌晨2:24 / 哥伦比亚广播公司/美联社
曼谷——泰国皇家宫务处宣布，泰国帕差拉吉帝雅帕·玛哈多公主（Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol）去世，享年47岁。她是一名律师，也是玛哈·哇集拉隆功国王的长女。
根据周五发布的声明，她于周四晚间在曼谷一家医院去世，三年前她因突发疾病失去意识后便一直在这家医院接受治疗。
“这场损失不仅是向民众公布的噩耗，更是举国上下心中难以估量的悲痛，”总理阿努廷·查恩维拉库尔在电视讲话中表示。他称公主是“泰国的骄傲”，“她致力于构建一个友善、正义与平等的社会，这份奉献将永远作为国家的道德遗产，成为世代泰国人的指引明灯。”
据法新社报道，宫务处补充称，公主的灵柩将安放在曼谷大皇宫，葬礼将“按照王室传统以最高规格举行”。
法新社报道称，宫务处在5月曾表示，公主的病情出现恶化，医疗设备和药物一直在维持她的肺和肾功能。
一小批哀悼者聚集在朱拉隆功国王纪念医院的中庭内，这里正是公主接受治疗的医院。大多数人手持装裱好或塑封的公主历年照片。
2026年6月12日，在曼谷朱拉隆功医院前，一名哀悼者手持泰国公主帕差拉吉帝雅帕·玛哈多的照片哭泣。王室宣布，这位公主在突发疾病住院三年多后去世，享年47岁。莉莲·苏万伦帕 / 法新社/盖蒂图片社
帕塔玛蓬·考基塔亚空表示，她周四就抵达了医院，整夜守在这里以表达对公主的支持，当时并不知道次日早上会发布公主离世的消息。
“我知道她生病了，但我曾期盼会有奇迹出现，”她声音颤抖地说道，“我既伤心又震惊。”
帕差拉吉帝雅帕曾积极参与司法改革，最为人熟知的是她的“Kamlangjai”（即“鼓舞”）项目，该项目旨在帮助泰国在押女性囚犯在获释前进行改造。
帕差拉吉帝雅帕于2022年12月在为军队展览训练犬只时失去意识，随后住院。王室称她感染了支原体，这是一种通常与肺炎相关的细菌感染。
国王2023年的新年贺卡中，玛哈·哇集拉隆功国王和诗丽吉王后身着肃穆黑衣，许多泰国民众据此认为公主的病情十分严重。
公主于1978年12月7日出生，父亲是时任王储的玛哈·哇集拉隆功，母亲是他当时的妻子诗素瓦丽公主。玛哈·哇集拉隆功与四位先后迎娶的妻子共育有七个孩子。帕差拉吉帝雅帕在正式场合也被称为王室名号帕差拉吉帝雅帕·纳伦德拉·德比亚瓦蒂（Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati）。
国王最年幼的孩子迪彭科尔·拉斯米乔提亲王（Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti）是推定继承人，因为泰国的继承顺序优先考虑男性子嗣。但帕差拉吉帝雅帕的公共服务经历引发猜测，认为她有望在未来的王位继承中担任要职，或许会成为年幼君主的摄政者。
帕差拉吉帝雅帕在法政大学学习法律，随后前往美国纽约州康奈尔大学，并于2002年获得法学硕士学位。2005年，她在康奈尔大学获得博士学位，论文主题为被告人权利保护。此后，以她的名字命名的康奈尔法学院奖学金以及泰国与康奈尔大学之间的法律学者交流项目相继设立。
她曾在纽约的泰国驻联合国代表团短暂工作，之后回国担任检察官。2012年至2014年，她被任命为泰国驻奥地利大使，重启外交生涯，随后返回泰国专注于刑事司法议题。2017年，她被任命为联合国毒品和犯罪问题办公室亲善大使。
除了致力于女性囚犯的改造工作，她还参与了其他项目，包括改善女性囚犯生活条件的运动，并以联合国妇女署荣誉亲善大使的身份推动打击针对女性的暴力行为。她的努力推动联合国大会通过了关于女性囚犯护理和待遇条件的《曼谷规则》。
“如果社会缺乏稳定与正义，就无法发展，”帕差拉吉帝雅帕在2013年接受美联社采访时说道。
“没有法治，没有完善的司法体系，永远都会陷入混乱，”她表示，“我认为法治是发展、经济增长，当然也是人权的重要支柱。”
帕差拉吉帝雅帕的父母和兄弟姐妹仍在世。
Thai princess dies at age 47 after 3 years in hospital
June 12, 2026 2:24 AM EDT / CBS/AP
Bangkok— Thailand’s Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol, a lawyer and the eldest of King Maha Vajiralongkorn’s children, has died at 47, the Bureau of the Royal Household said.
She died Thursday evening at a Bangkok hospital where she had been cared for since falling unconscious due to illness three years ago, according to the statement issued Friday.
“This loss is not merely bad news announced to the people, but an immeasurable grief in the hearts of the entire nation,” Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul said in a televised speech. He said the princess was “a pride of Thailand,” and that “her commitment to building a society of kindness, justice, and equality, will forever remain as a moral legacy for the nation, a guiding light for generations of Thais.”
She will lie in state at the Grand Palace in Bangkok and her funeral will be held “with the highest honors according to royal tradition,” the bureau’s statement added, according to French news agency AFP.
The bureau said in May that her condition had deteriorated and medical devices and medications were supporting her lung and kidney functions, AFP reported.
A small group of mourners gathered in an atrium at King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, where the princess had been treated. Most held framed or laminated photos of her throughout the years.
A mourner weeps while holding a photo of Thai princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol in front of Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok on June 12, 2026. The princess died at age 47, the royal palace announced, more than three years after she was hospitalized following a sudden illness. Lillian Suwanrumpha / AFP via Getty Images
Pattamaporn Kaewkityakorn said she had arrived Thursday and spent the night there to show her support for the princess, unaware that the announcement of her passing would come the following morning.
“I know she was sick, but I wished there were a miracle,” she said, her voice trembling. “I was saddened and shocked.”
Bajrakitiyabha was active in justice reform efforts and best known for her Kamlangjai, or “Inspire” project to help rehabilitate incarcerated Thai women ahead of their release.
Bajrakitiyabha was hospitalized in December 2022 after falling unconscious while training dogs for an army exhibition. The palace said she had a mycoplasma infection, a bacterial infection usually associated with pneumonia.
Her father’s New Year’s greeting card for 2023 showed King Maha Vajiralongkorn and Queen Suthida garbed in somber black, which many Thais saw as confirmation of the gravity of her condition.
The princess was born on Dec. 7, 1978 to Vajiralongkorn, who was the crown prince at the time, and his then-wife, Princess Soamsawali. Vajiralongkorn has seven children by three of his four successive wives. Bajrakitiyabha was also known by the royal name Bajrakitiyabha Narendira Debyavati, used in formal state settings.
Prince Dipangkorn Rasmijoti, the youngest of the king’s children, is the presumptive heir because sons take precedence in Thailand’s line of succession. But Bajrakitiyabha’s experience in public service raised speculation she was set to hold an important role in any future succession, perhaps as regent to a youthful monarch.
Bajrakitiyabha studied law at Thammasat University then went to Cornell University in New York state, where she earned a master’s degree in law in 2002. She earned a doctorate at Cornell in 2005 with a dissertation concerning the protection of the rights of the accused. Scholarships to Cornell Law School and a program for the exchange of legal scholars between Thailand and Cornell were later established in her name.
After working briefly at the Thai Mission to the U.N. in New York City, she returned home and worked as a public prosecutor. She renewed her diplomatic career with an appointment as Thailand’s ambassador to Austria from 2012 to 2014 before returning to her homeland to concentrate on criminal justice issues. In 2017, she was appointed a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime.
In addition to working for the rehabilitation of female convicts, she was involved in other projects including a campaign to enhance the living conditions of women prisoners and promoting efforts to stem violence against women as an honorary U.N. goodwill ambassador for women. Her efforts led to the U.N. General Assembly adopting the “Bangkok Rules” on care and conditions for female prisoners.
“Society cannot grow if there is instability and injustice,” Bajrakitiyabha said in a 2013 interview with The Associated Press.
“Without the rule of law, without a good justice system, it’s always chaos,” she said. “I think the rule of law is a very important pillar to development, to economic growth, and of course to human rights.”
Bajrakitiyabha is survived by her parents and siblings.