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Inside the billionaire world of the controversial monarch of Thailand
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telegraph.co.uklèse majesté laws, citizens can be jailed for up to 15 years for showing disrespect to royalty.Six months on those protests are, if anything, gathering momentum.
A bloody crackdown by the arch-royalist army looks possible, if not probable. The erstwhile tourist mecca of Thailand has become the latest flashpoint in the global struggle between democracy and authoritarianism, and the catalyst is the widely reviled king himself.Vajiralongkorn's father, King Bhumibol, was the world's longest reigning (and richest) monarch when he died in 2016 after 70 years on the throne.
His image was burnished by state propaganda, but he was generally seen as a humble, pious man who seldom left Thailand as he strove to help his people.
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