King Norodom Sihamoni (left) with his mother (Queen Mother) Norodom Monineath (82), celebrating his 66th birthday |
Ekcharin (right) with his father Yuvaneath (ca 2010s) |
Norodom Ekcharin was born on 15 April 1969 in (capital) Phnom Penh, the second child (& son) of Prince Yuvaneath and his second wife, Tea Kim Yin. His father, a polyglot & former Scout, was the elder son of then royal Head of State & once was influential in governmental affairs.
His family initially lived at the palace.
Norodom Sihanouk (1922-2012) as royal Head-of-State |
Yuvaneath's family fled for Beijing & then (1980) to the US. Those Royal family members who remained in Cambodia, passed through the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-79) with some of them being murdered. Ekcharin's family also assumed he was killed in 1976.
Seal of Democratic Kampuchea, during Khmer Rouge' regime |
From there he safely reached Sweden, where he grew up in Stockholm, without any connection with his birth family.
Norodom Yuvaneath in February 2013 |
Norodom Sihanouk was reinstated to state leadership, becoming King of Cambodia for the second time. Prince Yuvaneath returned as well to assume prestigeous positions in the Privy (Royal) Council.
Royal Coat-of-Arms of Cambodia |
Ekcharin (left) with one of his sisters (after reuniting) |
So after some searching of his roots he came to contact with one of his younger sisters, and then with the rest of his family, in USA!
His family quickly recognised him & with the help of a CHilean royal biographer, re-established his connections with the House of Norodom, with the Royal Court of Cambodia naming him a Prince again.
Cambodia's Royal Standard |
The Prince tried to sensitize public view about the hard working conditions many Cambodians face in the Swedish TV4 documentary series, called "Kalla Fakta" (= cold facts).
Eventually Prince Ekcharin returned to his birth country in 2013. He was reunited with his family a year later, on their visit to the country.
At Yuvaneath's 75th Birthday' celebrations, last October (2018) |
His father, Norodom Yuvaneath, turned 75 years old last October.
Further links of information:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Ekcharin
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Yuvaneath
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norodom_Sihanouk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khmer_Rouge
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-life-arts-culture/updated-edition-provides-insight-lives-and-lineage-cambodias-royals
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/swedish-outcry-has-royal-voice-midst
https://karljohanrahm.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/hm-duckar-for-kambodjansk-prins/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Norodom
This Charin is an impersonator. In August of 2022, DNA test sample is conducted between him and Tea Kim Yin (the mother). The result concludes he is not her biological son. He also submitted a fake DNA result between him and Yuvaneath (the father) back in 2016 and Yuvaneath accepted the result without knowing it's fake. Later in August of 2022, the DNA result was discovered to had been tempered by Charin to look like 100% DNA match.
ΑπάντησηΔιαγραφήCorrection:...tampered by Charin....
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