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Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Krom Luang Naradhiwas Rajanagarindra undertook numerous activities for the nation, relieving burdens on His Majesty the King and the Princess Mother, with several hundred projects under her royal patronage, in the fields of education, social welfare, medicine and public health, philosophy and religion, art and culture, literature, archeology, and history.
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Education
Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana worked as a full-time and part-time lecturer in French language and literature in several tertiary educational institutions, and took part in various academic activities. She established the Thai Association of Teachers of French. She promoted and assisted the participation of Thai youth in International Science and Mathematics Olympiads, granting her personal funds and the Princess Mother’s Charity Fund to set up “Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana Fund for Science and Mathematics Olympiads.” |
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Social Welfare
Her Royal Highness devoted herself to rural development and education, especially in impoverished areas in the Northeast. She was keenly aware of problems in congested communities and paid frequent private visits to communities in Bangkok such as Khlong Toei, Wat Phraya Yang, Lumphini, Soi On Nut Garbage Dump, and Phetkasem 104, among others. She was concerned about children and families in these communities and accepted the Foundation for Slum Child Care under her royal patronage. As a result, several child development projects came into being, such as the Slum Child Development Project, Primary Health Care for Mother and Child Project, Fund for Milk and Supplementary Food, and the Emergency Fund to prevent malnutrition among impoverished children in poor communities.
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She also accepted under her royal patronage social organizations such as the Foundation for the Promotion of the Welfare of Women and Youth, the Foundation for the Development of Young Women of the North, the Foundation for Life, the Green World Foundation, and the Bangkok-Bang Lamphu Rotary Club, to name a few.
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| Medicine and Public Health
Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana was interested in and concerned about the health and welfare of all Thai subjects. She perpetuated the ideals and work of the Prince Father and the Princess Mother. She took upon herself the responsibility of administering over 30 foundations and charitable organizations related to public health and hygiene, such as the Princess Mother’s Medical Volunteer Foundation (or Doctors with Green Bags), the Kidney Foundation, the Foundation of Mom Chao Boonchirathorn (Chumpol) Chudadhuj, the Cardiac Children’s Foundation, the Foundation in Support of Mentally Deficient Children, the Tropical Medicine Hospital Foundation, the Lerdsin Hospital Foundation, the Prostheses Foundation, and the Thanyarak Breast Foundation under the Princess Mother’s Royal Patronage. Moreover, she kindly allowed the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University, to accompany her on the visits of volunteer doctors in 2002 to look after animal raising and animal diseases in various provinces, namely Chiang Rai, Nan, Phrae, Uttaradit, Phayao, and Phitsanulok.
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Foreign Relations
Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana paid numerous foreign visits, both official and private, to strengthen cordial relations with various countries on several occasions, while providing opportunities for the Thai people to gain insights into those countries. She personally studied and provided information on the art and culture of those countries to correspondents in the royal party for the presentation of reports on TV Pool of Thailand. She herself checked television scripts for accuracy before reports were presented. |
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Religion
The Princess served as the Honorary Chairperson of the Ceremony to Install the World’s First Edition of Romanized Buddhist Scripture. Since 2005, she was also the founding chairperson and honorary chairperson of Ruam Chit Nom Klao Foundation under Her Majesty the Queen’s Royal Patronage, which undertook the translation and printing of the Romanized Buddhist scripture, to be presented to various countries. She accepted Wat Pa Siri Vadhana Wisut at Ban Khao Khok Phen, in Thamnop subdistrict, Tha Tako district, Nakhon Sawan province, as a temple under her personal patronage on 12 June 2007.
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Art and Culture
Her Royal Highness Princess Galyani Vadhana promoted artistic and cultural performances such as classical concerts and operas. She was also the patroness of the Symphony Orchestra of Chulalongkorn University and attended performances on several occasions. She granted the name of “Traditional Thai Puppet Theater” on Joe Louis Puppet Theater and accepted an invitation to be the patroness of the Traditional Thai Puppet Theater Foundation.
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Literary Works
The Princess was an avid reader and writer. Her literary talents were obvious from as many as 25 books of her composition, which could be grouped into four categories, namely those related to the Royal Family, such as Mother Told Me, Young Royals, Young Monarchs, Chulalongkorn Royal Lineage, and Maha Mongkut Royal Lineage; translations, such as Child Stories and Spanish Coronation; travel stories, such as One Dozen (Days) in China, Northeastern China, and Sichuan: From the Manchu Land to Ngobai Hill; and academic works, such as a book in French on the use of the French language, entitled Du bon et du mauvais usage. |
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