Hteik Su Phaya Gyi


Princess Hteik Su Phaya Gyi is a Princess of Burma and most senior member of the Royal House of Konbaung. She is the daughter of Princess Myat Phaya Galay and the granddaughter of the last king of Burma Thibaw Min and Supayalat.
Upon the death of her younger brother Taw Phaya in 2019, she became the last living grandchild of King Thibaw.

Biography

Hteik Su Phaya Gyi was born on 5 April 1923 in Rangoon, British Burma; her father was Ko Ko Naing, a former monk and her mother was Princess Myat Phaya Galay, the fourth daughter of King Thibaw and Queen Supayalat.
She attended the Catholic School in Moulmein. She was employed at the US and Australian embassies in Rangoon, and later as a private school teacher.
In 1936, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi was engaged offer by Crown Prince of Thailand Ananda Mahidol, the brother of Bhumibol Adulyadej. But World War II has started at that time. At that time Hteik Su Phaya Gyi was figuratively known as "Queen of Thailand".
In 1943, she married Maung Maung Khin, a descendant of the Mon royal family. He was the nephew of the Premier Ba Maw and brother of Khin Kyi, a wife of Taw Phaya Gyi. Maung Maung Khin died at Rangoon in 1984. She has three sons and two daughters.

Documentary film

In 2017, Hteik Su Phaya Gyi and her younger brother Taw Phaya, nephew Soe Win, niece Devi Thant Sin appeared as the main characters of We Were Kings, a documentary film by Alex Bescoby and Max Jones. The film premiered in Mandalay on 4 November 2017 at the Irrawaddy Literary Festival and also screened in Thailand at the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand. The film is about Myanmar's history, but also about the descendants of the last kings of Burma who lived unassuming lives in modern Myanmar, unrecognized and unknown.

Family

She has three sons and two daughters: