Hundreds of nude photos of Thai King’s official mistress Maha Vajiralongkorn have been leaked to anti-monarchy activists, a report said Tuesday.
Earlier this year, according to the Daily Beast, some 1,400 selfies of Sineenat “Koi” Wongvajirapakdi – many of them sexually explicit – were reportedly leaked to prominent critics of the Thai monarchy living abroad.
“There were 1,400 photos from four different iPhones. Some were very intimate photos, ”one of the recipients, British commentator Andrew MacGregor Marshall, told the outlet.
Marshall said he received a letter – initially sent to an address he no longer uses – with an SD card containing the photos.
The letter carried what he believed to be “a bogus return address” linked to the German intelligence headquarters in Berlin, he told the Daily Beast.
“I’ve decided not to publish them,” said Marshall. “They were clearly sent to me without her permission, but I also saw that this is a faction game.”
Marshall said he received the mysterious letter in August, around the same time that 35-year-old Wongvajirapakdi was released after a feud with the Thai queen to join the king’s harem of “ sex soldiers. ”
According to reports at the time of Wongvajirapakdi’s detention in October 2019, she said she had tried to usurp the queen.
Marshall also said he received a threat around the time he received the SD card.
“Earlier in August, my home in Scotland was under surveillance and a threat was left on the doorstep, so it was quite a troubling time and the last thing I wanted was to get caught up in palace politics,” he told the Daily Beast.
Although Marshall did not disclose any of the photos, he confirmed that he had received them in support of another critic of the Thai monarchy, Pavin Chachavalpongpun, who did release them.
“From the timing of the whole case, it was clearly an attempt to sabotage her return to court,” Marshall told the outlet. ‘You get faction battles at every royal court. It’s an infamous part of palace life. If you are a monarch with a wife and queen and you appoint a mate, that is a recipe for brutal infighting. “
The eccentric billionaire king, 68, was reportedly rushed to hospital following a coronavirus in October, but has not been in ill health since.