On 15 June 2007, Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra was admitted into Siriraj Hospital with abdominal pains and remained at the Chalerm Phra Kiat Building for treatment. The medical team made a thorough check with computerized tomography and found that she had cancer, the same type that had infected her breast and had been treated 10 years before. Moreover, doctors found that the Princess had suffered an infarction on the left side of her brain as a result of occlusion of a cerebral artery. The medical team provided treatment for her to the best of their ability, but her condition gradually worsened and she passed away at 02.54 hr on Wednesday, 2 January 2008 at the age of 84. Thereafter, His Majesty the King commanded the Bureau of the Royal Household to organize royal religious rites with the highest honor in accordance with court traditions, with the royal remains lying in state at Dusit Maha Prasat Throne Hall within the Grand Palace.

Later, on the occasion of the royal merit-making marking the seventh day after her passing away, His Majesty the King commanded an announcement investing Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana with full royal honors, and had a seven-tiered white umbrella of state placed over the royal urn granted for her remains.


The Thai government issued an announcement from the Prime Minister’s Office defining an official mourning period of 15 days for government offices, state enterprises, and educational institutions, during which the Thai national flag would be flown at half mast, and officials and state enterprise personnel would dress in mourning from 2 January 2008 onwards.

 
   
       
   
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