Prince Ranarah of Cambodia died of illness on 28 November 2021, and his stepmother, Empress Monilie, took her biological son, King Sihamoni, to mourn the family of Prince Ranari. The white-haired man sent the black-haired man by the Empress Monilie, who was very sad and wept in the coffin.
However, some netizens actually commented that Empress Monilie was acting, did not care about her stepson at all, and was very happy to see her stepson die of illness, and since then no one has competed with her own son for the throne.
Those who speak in this way not only use malice to guess Empress Monilie, but also are too ignorant of the situation of the Cambodian royal family.
First of all, there was no dispute between Prince Ranari and King Sihamoni for the throne. Prince Ranarit is an ambitious man who wants to be in power, he wants to be prime minister in power, he doesn't want to be the powerless king of a constitutional monarchy. He once made it clear to his father, King Sihanouk, that he did not want to be king.
And King Sihamoni is indifferent to fame and fortune, and does not want to be a king, he is a university professor in Paris, France, living a petty bourgeois life is very comfortable, why should he go back to Cambodia, a place that has been fighting for many years, to be king?
King Sihanouk wanted his youngest son, Prince Sihamoni, to be king because there was no other suitable person in the family. However, Prince Sihamoni refused, and King Sihanouk persuaded Prince Sihamoni for many years, and finally used The mother of Prince Sihamoni, Queen Monilie, as an excuse to persuade Prince Sihamoni: "If you are not the king, your mother will be alone in the royal family." At this point, Prince Sihamoni agreed to run for the king, but he did not expect to be elected.
(Note: The Cambodian throne is not a hereditary system, but a royal system, which is chosen by the princes of the three royal families, and the new king does not have to be the son of the old king, but the son of the old king is also eligible.) ）
Empress Monilie did not want her son to be king, and Empress Monilie followed King Sihanouk for so many years, exiled to foreign countries, sent people to the fence, and once had a family of four under house arrest by Pol Pot for three years.
The wise and virtuous Empress Monilie knew how dangerous it was to be the king of Cambodia, and her son King Sihamoni was loyal and honest and not good at fighting at all, so how could she let her beloved son sit on the crater?
But the will of King Sihanouk, Empress Monilie, would not object, and she had always been a submissive wife. The sacrifice of the prince for the family has been a matter from ancient times to the present.
The Prime Minister of Cambodia is nicknamed "Cao Cao of the Small Country", is it comfortable to be a king? Looking at king Sihamoni when he was crowned in 2004, he was still a handsome man with a sunny face, but now he is old and haggard, which shows that these years have not been easy, and it is better to be a university professor in France.
There was no battle for the throne between Prince Ranari and King Sihamoni, and the brothers were very harmonious. And Empress Monilie saw that Prince Ranari was really the same as her own son. Because Prince Ranari was born shortly after his birth, his birth mother Ganho was driven away by the royal family because of her poor birth, and he was raised by his grandmother.
Ganjo was driven away in 1944, when Prince Ranari was an infant, Empress Monilie was only 8 years old, Empress Monilie entered the palace in 1952, Empress Monilee and Ganjo did not form a relationship of love enemies, Prince Ranari had no birth mother in his life, and he would not contradict his stepmother, Empress Monilie.
According to the rules of the royal family, Empress Monilie was the mother of Prince Ranari, and her birth mother Ganho was only a distant shadow. Therefore, Empress Monilie and Prince Ranarit will never have a contradiction between stepmother and stepson.
For the Cambodian royal family, Prince Ranarje is the mainstay, and he has been struggling all these years to invisibly restrain the dominant Hong Cheng Xiang. Without Prince Ranari, Hong Cheng was invincible in the world, and he could have no scruples. Let's look at history, is a monopoly of power a good thing for the king?
Empress Monilie wept in the coffin when she mourned her stepson Prince Ranari, which was definitely really sad, not acting. On the one hand, she lost her stepson, who grew up, and the white-haired people sent the black-haired people. On the other hand, it is also a worry about the future of the royal family.
Reference: The Sihanoukville Family
The Unsinkable King---- Sihanoukville