Each country has its own top beauties, who either walk on the red carpet or go in and out of the court.
Cambodia is recognized as a great beauty, and Princess Opola is like this.
It's just that she was really miserable, and she had just spent eight years on the throne of the First Princess, and she encountered three elaborate car accidents.
First blind in one eye and then lost her life, the life of this Cambodian princess is undoubtedly a happy and tragic story.
01. The struggling Cambodian royal family
Anyone who pays attention to the news has heard of Cambodia's Prince Sihanouk, an old friend of Chinese people, who lived in Beijing in his later years and died in Beijing at the age of 90.
In fact, before becoming prince, Sihanouk's identity was the king of Cambodia. Princess Opola's husband was Sihanouk's most capable son, Ranari.
Young photo of Prince Sihanouk
Cambodia is a struggling country in the Indochina Peninsula, living under the pinch of its two major neighbors, Vietnam and Thailand. In order to protect its territory from being encroached upon by its neighbors, the Cambodian royal family invited the French to maintain the balance. Since then, the Indochina Peninsula has become a French colony.
In order to better control the Cambodian royal family, the French made the descendants of a pair of royal brothers take turns as kings, namely the Norodom royal family and the Sisowa royal family, which both had the right to inherit the throne in Cambodia.
This roommate situation lasted until the end of World War II, when a 19-year-old man of two royal bloods ascended to the throne of the king, and this person was Sihanouk.
Prince Sihanoukville
Sihanouk was a high-minded politician who took advantage of the tide of national liberation after World War II to break free from the shackles of the French and become the de facto king of Cambodia.
But he knew that monarchy was not in line with the trend of modern society, so he transformed Cambodia into a constitutional monarchy and abdicated as head of state. In the pattern of the US-Soviet hegemony, Sihanouk wanted to transform the country into a socialist system, which touched the bottom line of the United States.
In 1970, when Sihanouk visited the Soviet Union, he was overthrown by pro-American forces at home. His two sons at home were also arrested, including the husband of Princess Opola.
Sihanoukville and Ranari
Fortunately, Prince Ranari had a great life, and Empress Goshaman, who had raised him since childhood, was heavily redeemed. Prince Ranarit, the escaped world, took his wife and children to France to live.
Yes, Prince Ranarid had his own original wife, and Opola was his second wife.
Prince Ranarid, who was far from the political turmoil, lived a quiet life for more than a decade, while his siblings suffered heavy casualties in the 70s and 80s, and his father Sihanouk was placed under house arrest for many years.
After the loss of 6 children, Sihanouk, who had regained his freedom, still did not give up his plan to restore his country, and he went to France to find Ranarit and asked him to return to Cambodia with him.
At that time, Ranarit was working as a university teacher in France, and his life was peaceful and stable. But Ranari and his first wife, Mary, were both politically ambitious men, and together they decided to return to their country and pursue their political ideals.
In 1993, the Cambodian royal family was successfully restored. There were two options before Ranari, one was to become the mascot king without real power, and the other was to continue to serve as the leader of the party founded by his father, the Bong Simbik Party.
Ranari chose the latter, ceding the throne to his brother, and relying on his partisan advantage to become the most powerful member of the royal family in Cambodia. And his second wife, Opola, has also shown her grace and begun to walk to the front of history.
Opola
02, the fate of the encounter, the new look for the old look
Ranarieh has always been very prestigious in Cambodian people, in addition to his own political resume and partisan resources, but also because of his relationship with his wife Mary has always been very good.
Cambodia was a late country to introduce monogamy, and there were very few members of the royal family like Ranarit, who had always had only one wife. For example, Ranari's half-brother Prince Shakapon had seven wives, for which Ranarit satirized his brother from the moral high ground.
Prince Ranarit and Madame Mary
And Madame Mary is indeed a strong woman with both beauty and wisdom. Mrs. Mary's appearance is very Western,Three-dimensional and delicate, and her fair skin makes her dignified and atmospheric.
The lady, who also has royal blood, has a tough style and has been playing the role of a think tank behind Ranari. Even despite Ranari's opposition, he vigorously supported his eldest son's entry into politics, which can be said to be a rare female haojie in Cambodia.
The two accompanied each other all the way to their 50s, but were broken by a long-term relationship with a bright-eyed young girl.
Opola was born in 1979, 35 years away from Ranari. Due to her poor family, Opola began her dance career at an early age, and at the age of 9 she entered the Royal University of the Arts in Phnom Penh to study Khmer classical dance.
Opola's dance talent is very good, and she looks very classical, and she began to perform on stage at the age of 13. Four years later, at the age of 17, Opola became the principal performer of cambodia's "Fairy Dance".
Fairy Dance
The fairy dance is a Court Dance in Cambodia that was inscribed on the World Intangible Heritage List in 2003. It can be said that the status of fairy dance in Cambodia is the same as the status of ballet in Russia.
As a dance that imitates a snake, the fairy dance has more than a thousand kinds of hand movements, which have high requirements for the dancers' dance skills and memory. In Cambodia, dancers who dance fairy dances have a high status.
Therefore, as the chief Opola has achieved a reversal in life, her future mate selection will basically be rich or expensive.
Opola in her youth
In 1995, Opola performed at the International Day in Angkor Wat and managed to attract the attention of Cambodian tourism officials. At just 17 years old, she soared to become the wife of the Minister of Tourism, but this was not the highest point of her life.
After only two years, Opola ceased to appear as the minister's wife. Some say it was because Prince Ranarit took a fancy to her, and the beautiful canary flew into an even more beautiful golden birdcage.
Others say it was the Minister of Tourism who had abandoned her, and Opola, who had already given birth to a daughter for the Minister, had to return to the troupe to make a living. Later, when Opola was filming the movie "The Royal City", she met the prince.
For a long time, the relationship between the two was well hidden, until O'Polla gave birth to ranarit's first son in France. In order to celebrate the birth of the newborn, the prince set up a banquet in a foreign country to congratulate his friends, and the news of the infidelity reached Madame Mary's ears.
Usually the original wife who started from scratch with her husband can't melt into the sand in her eyes. At the time of the incident, Cambodia had already implemented monogamy, and Mrs. Mary, in a fit of rage, took her husband to court for bigamy.
The teenage couple married during a turbulent time in Cambodia, so they did not have a wedding or a marriage license. And this is now being used by Ranariet as a justification for exoneration. The love affair hurt like this, and Mrs. Mary chose to divorce directly.
The Prince and Madame Mary
Opolla, who had spent a lifetime in hiding, benefited and officially became the prince's legal wife in 2010. After marriage, she bore a second son for Ranari.
Unlike Madame Mary's strong woman style, Opola, who accompanied Ranarit to events, has always played the role of an admirer. After becoming a princess, her dress was very plain, and she did not even apply powder.
Since Cambodia is not a wealthy country and the royal family's financial resources are also very limited, Opola only has a pearl necklace to support the scene when she attends the event. More often, Opola has a plain neck and wears only a solid color skirt.
Because she was about the same height as the prince, Opola rarely wore high heels when she followed her husband. Her smile is very gentle, and she can feel satisfied with the current situation of life when she looks at her husband's eyes with admiration.
But unfortunately, this happy life only existed for five years.
03, dragon and tiger dispute and three car accidents
In 1993, Ranari won the prime minister's election on behalf of the Bong Simbik Party, but this also brought his conflict with Hun Sen to the culmination. Hun Sen was a political strongman who emerged during Cambodia's chaotic times. He and Ranariet are direct competitors to Cambodia's first chair.
In 1997, Ranarit was forced into exile because he was unable to defeat Hun Sen, and was not allowed to return until the following year. Since then, the power of the two has grown one after another, and Hun Sen has steadily suppressed Ranari.
Hun Sen and Nalarie
The years from 2015 to 2018 were the most unfortunate years of Ranari and Opola's lives, with the two encountering three car accidents in three years. In the first car accident, Ranarare was not damaged, but Opola's left eye could not be opened and she fell disabled.
However, when accompanying her husband to the event, Opola still maintained her usual gentle smile, which shows that Opolla, who came from a poor background, is an optimistic and strong woman.
In Buddhist Cambodia, people also began to spontaneously pray for the princess, and the love story of the two spread throughout the streets.
In July 2018, Ranari traveled across the country to comfort members of the Bong Simbik Party, with Opola accompanying him.
A passenger car with a license plate in the capital Phnom Penh suddenly appeared near Po Li Nu County, and the bus quickly hit the vehicle where the prince and his wife were located. Opola died, and the prince was taken by helicopter and urgently transported to Thailand for treatment.
04, the end of the story
After Opola's death, Prince Ranarid was disabled in the lower part of his body and lived only three more years. After the Prince's inability to move, Madame Mary returned to the Prince and the two remarried.
Opola and the prince's two sons were still young, and Opolla died when the younger son was only 6 years old. After the prince's death, he entrusted his two children to Madame Mary, and the two children were in an awkward situation, but the good villains also had a safe place.
The eldest son of Prince Ranarit and Madame Mary
Opola's younger son
Opola's life was short, and she was only 39 years old when she died.
Her life was full of ups and downs, and presumably she herself was insecure. Therefore, a prince with a noble status and real power who is willing to give her shelter and stability must have made her have great love.
She was satisfied with the life before her death, but this short-lived happiness lasted only five years, and it was a hasty ending after the joy of grief.