> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London, 1960 - URL: https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/king-bhumibol-and-queen-sirikit-of-thailand-visit-london-1960/ - Published: 2020-07-21T13:45:11.000Z - Updated: 2020-07-21T05:58:43.000Z - Author: Jessica - Tags: #wp, #wp-gallery, #slideshow, #Import 2026-10-07 08:09 ## Thai Royal Couple Arrive At Gatwick ![King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-758229989-1595268509.jpg) Bhumibol Adulyadej (1927 - 2016), King of Thailand, and Queen Sirikit at Gatwick Airport at the start of a three-day state visit to Britain, 19th July 1960\. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) I believe Queen Sirikit's entire tour wardrobe was done by Balmain, which at this point in history was under the creative oversight of Pierre Balmain. It's truly a gorgeous wardrobe. Interestingly, Queen Sirikit also did a lot of work in her life to promote Thai silk; you will see her in a lot of silk in this slideshow. ## Phil, Queen Sirikit, King Bhumibol, QEII ![King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-515182406-1595268464.jpg) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 19: King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, aka Rama IX, and wife Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, at Buckingham Palace, in London, United Kingdom, on July 19, 1960\. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) The men look dashing, Queen Sirikit looks absolutely elegant and appropriate, and QEII is apparently wearing a potted plant on her head. Elizabeth, what is on your head? (She made some historically wacky choices in headgear for a twenty-five year period there in the middle of the previous century.) ![King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-805550416-1595268521.jpg) Queen Sirikit of Thailand with the Duke of Edinburgh in an open carriage as they left Victoria Station, London, on a processional drive to Buckingham Palace. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images) I appreciate that Informative Caption has told me that they here are leaving Victoria Station and heading to Buckingham Palace. I wonder what's in the Hudson's building now. (Shoutout to the woman with the binoculars in the second floor window there.) ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-82582735-1595268403.jpg) King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand wave to the crowds during a visit to Britain, 1960\. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) I am truly here for this hat! ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-466708741-1595268442.jpg) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 20: King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, aka Rama IX and wife Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara arrive at the Thai embassy at Ashburn place in London, United Kingdom for a dinner organised for members of the English royal family whose Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip on July 20, 1960\. (Photo by Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) Here, the couple is arriving at "the Thai embassy at Ashburn place in London, United Kingdom for a dinner," and yes I downloaded SEVERAL shots from this event because I think she looks so spectacular. I rarely wish for color photos-- because black and white is so glam! -- but I wish I knew what color or colors her ensemble is. ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2020/07/gettyimages-613503316-1595268491-scaled.jpg) (Original Caption) King And Queen Of Siam Entertain. The King and Queen of Siam, now on a state visit to England, entertained the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh, and other members of the royal family, to dinner at the Thailand embassy tonight. The picture shows the King and Queen of Siam arriving ready to welcome their guests. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images) This DOES make me want to buy some Thai silks. This whole look is incredibly elegant. ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-106506335-1595268430.jpg) UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 20: The Queen At A Diner At The Embassy Of Thailand. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) Her jewelry also looks amazing. Those bracelets! ([She has a tiara that converts into bracelets](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/are-you-fug/) and I THINK that some of these bracelets are from that suite.) ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit Visit Cambridge ![](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-97545591-1595268418.jpg) King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand leave Trinity Hall, Trinity College, Cambridge, during their state visit to England, 21st July 1960\. They are escorted by Lord Adrian (1889 - 1977), Master of Trinity College, and Princess Alexandra. (Photo by Jimmy Sime/Central Press/Getty Images) FWIW, King Bhumibol is also impeccably tailored here. (They're leaving Trinity Hall, at Trinity College at Cambridge here; the very old dude is Lord Adrian, the Master of Trinity College, and he woman is Princess Alexandra. [Lord Adrian won the Nobel for Physiology for work he did studying the human nervous system](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar%5FAdrian?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io); Princess Alexandra used to be pretty famous \[her wedding was televised and everything\] and she still does engagements for the Queen, who is her first cousin.\] ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London ![King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-805558156-1595268552.jpg) King Bhumibol Aduladej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand arrive at Westminster Abbey to pay homage at the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, one of the first official engagements of their State visit to London. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images) Here, they're arriving at Westminster Abbey, where they viewed the tomb of the Unknown Warrior, presumably among other things, as the Abbey is pretty interesting -- at least if you're intrigued by petty burial arrangements, which I am. (I feel like a lot of people are buried right next to people they loathed when they were alive.) ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London ![King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-515182430-1595268479.jpg) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 19: Queen Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara Of Thailand at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom, on July 19, 1960 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and wife Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara are in London for a three-day state visit. (Photo by Keystone-France/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images) Here's your close-up of that lace. ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London ![King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-466708781-1595268453.jpg) LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - JULY 19: Queen Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara Of Thailand signs the visitors' book after the wreath lying ceremony on the tomb of the Unknown Warrior at Westminster Abbey in London on July 19, 1960 - King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand and wife Queen Sirikit Kitiyakara are in London for a threee- day state visit. (Photo by Gamma-Keystone via Getty Images) I unfortunately do not have photos of the wreath-laying ceremony but here is further photographic evidence that royals love to sign a guest book. ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London ![King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-805550496-1595268537.jpg) King Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand leave Claridge's in Mayfair, to attend a private dance given by the Duchess of Kent at Kensington Palace. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images) Here, they're pictured leaving Claridge's "to attend a private dance given by the Duchess of Kent at Kensington Palace. " That mink stole got a lot of play! (Even in London in July.) While I was researching this piece, I read a contemporaneous piece about a later trip to Australia that noted that Queen Sirikit's collection of furs was awe-inspiring and that woman in the background of this photo DOES seem into it! ## King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand Visit London ![King Bhumibol and Queen Sirikit of Thailand](https://static.gofugyourself.com/uploads/2020/07/GettyImages-805558966-1595268566.jpg) King Bhumibol Aduladej and Queen Sirikit of Thailand arriving at Lancaster House, London, for a dinner and reception given in their honour by Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary. (Photo by PA Images via Getty Images) And this is at Lancaster House, "for a dinner and reception given in their honour by Selwyn Lloyd, the Foreign Secretary. " (You too have been inside Lancaster House, if you have ever watched any period piece where they visit Buckingham Palace, as it has stood in for that building about a kajillion times, including in Downton Abbey.) This whole look on Sirikit is fab. [I THINK the tiara is her bracelets re-tiara-ized](https://www.thecourtjeweller.com/p/thailand.html?ref=go-fug-yourself.ghost.io). Regardless: So pretty. [60 Years Ago, the King and Queen of Thailand Made a State Visit to BritainQueen Sirikit was EXTREMELY GLAMOROUS.![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/bf/b9/bfb99790-924d-4e41-a7e6-5e3c6e04fe57/content/images/static-gofugyourself-com/uploads/2020/07/gettyimages-613503316-1595268491-scaled.jpg)](https://go-fug-yourself.ghost.io/60-years-ago-the-king-and-queen-of-thailand-made-a-state-visit-to-britain-07-2020/)