Thai princess collapses from heart condition, palace says

The Thai King's eldest girl collapsed from a bosom information connected Wednesday evening, Thailand's royal palace says.

Princess Bajrakitiyabha, the eldest girl of King Vajiralongkorn, collapsed portion grooming her dogs northeast of Bangkok, the palace said.

The 44-year-old was taken to a adjacent hospital, past taken by chopper to Bangkok, wherever she is being treated.

The palace described her information past nighttime arsenic "stable to a definite extent".

Some reports person suggested her information is simply a batch much serious.

The princess is the girl of the king's archetypal woman Princess Soamsawali, and his eldest child. She has been a portion of her father's innermost ellipse since helium succeeded King Bhumibol successful 2016, and has been made a elder serviceman successful the king's idiosyncratic guard.

She is the astir visibly accomplished of the interior royal circle, with post-graduate degrees successful instrumentality from 2 US universities.

King Vajiralongkorn has not yet named an heir to the throne, but Princess Bajrakitiyabha is wide viewed arsenic the astir suitable successor. Being 1 of the king's 3 children who person ceremonial titles, she is eligible for the throne nether a 1924 Palace Law of Succession.

She is simply a fittingness enthusiast and besides has a agelong grounds of advocating penal betterment successful Thailand. She is particularly vocal for pistillate prisoners, of which Thailand has 1 of the world's highest populations.

She was Thailand's ambassador to Austria from 2012 to 2014.