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Thursday 29 November 2012

Royal title given to King Father Norodom Sihanouk

Thursday, 29 November 2012
Phnom Penh Post 
By May Titthara
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Workers prepare to hang up a portrait of the late King Norodom Sihanouk in Phnom Penh. Photograph: Heng Chivoan/Phnom Penh Post
The King of Cambodia officially anointed the late King Father Norodom Sihanouk with the royal title of Preah Borum Rattanak Kod at the Royal Palace yesterday, where his body has lain in state for 46 days.

Prince Sisowath Thomico, advisor to the royal cabinet and former secretary of the king, said that the nomination is a court tradition in which the king is offered a new name following his passing.

“King Sisowath was also given a new royal name, Preah Sovan Kod,” Thomico said.

Historian Ros Chantrabuth, a lecturer at the Royal University of Law and Economics, said the king of Cambodia is customarily offered three royal names – the first comes when he is born, the second marks his ascension to the throne and the third is given after death.

During the groundbreaking ceremony for the Stung Meanchey skybridge on November 26, Prime Minister Hun Sen officially announced that the new name would be bestowed at the beginning of the Water Festival.



He said that Sihanouk’s body will be cremated February 4, three days after it is escorted from the Royal Palace in a procession back to a crematorium on Meru field in front of the National Museum.

Sihanouk passed away on October 15 at the age of 89 in Beijing.

To contact the reporter on this story: May Titthara at titthara.may@phnompenhpost.com

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Cpp should gives Sinorook a new name like the father of cpp's gook or father of communism in Srok Khmer.I named Sdach Sinorook a treasoner of the century,or leech of China republic or a loser king of khmer's nation,beside Cheyjatha II.

Yobal Khmer

Anonymous said...

We should name Hun sen as a evictions' king of nation.

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Anonymous said...

Norodom Sihanouk Legacy :

" A national Hero who later became a Traitor "