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I’ll be perfectly honest with you and admit that I had no idea the King of Thailand is a straight-up playboy until now. I was only vaguely aware that there was a royal family in Thailand but I guess they don’t really infiltrate my daily news cycle in the same way as the British Royal Family which is a shame because it appears as if this guy is one of the most entertaining people in the global royal court.
67-year-old King Maha Vajiralongkorn has received ‘special permission’ from the German government to take over the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl which is as swanky as it sounds. It’s located just outside of Garmisch-Partenkirchen and most people in Germany are on hardcore lockdown right now but not the King of Thailand. Well, he is on lockdown but not like the rest of us.
According to the Independent, the King is holed up in the hotel with a ‘harem of 20 women’ and it’s unclear if any of those ladies are his wife. If you’re going to be quarantined you might as well make it a multi-week sex party, right? Right????
King Maha Vajiralongkorn, 67, reportedly booked the entire Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl with “special permission” to break the lockdown in the Alpine resort town of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, the Independent said, quoting German media.
But rather than isolate, he moved in a harem of 20 concubines along with a team of servants, the UK paper said, citing German tabloid Bild.
The king, widely known as Rama X, planned an even bigger party — but 119 members of his entourage were forced to return to Thailand amid fears they had the potentially deadly bug, the report said.
It was not clear if his fourth wife, former flight attendant Suthida Tidjai, was even with him.
His takeover made local news because hotels in the region have been forced to close to stem the spread of the deadly coronavirus.
But the Grand Hotel Sonnenbichl was given special permission to host the king and his entourage because “the guests are a single, homogenous group of people with no fluctuation,” a spokesperson for the local district council said, according to the report. (via NYPost)
Not a bad summertime view from that hotel:
According to the Post, this King hasn’t made a public appearance in his home country since February and people are butthurt over this, somehow forgetting the fact that the entire world is on lockdown right now. I guess the hashtag “Why do we need a king?” has been used over 1.2 million times on social media which is bullshit because we should all be thankful that SOMEONE SOMEWHERE is at least getting to enjoy lockdown while the rest of us are miserable.
For more on this story, you can click here to read the full article on the NYPost.