Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Chánh


Nguyễn Phúc Bửu Chánh is a self-proclaimed member of Vietnam's Nguyễn dynasty and pretender to the defunct throne of Vietnam. His great great grandfather was the 76th son of Emperor Ming Mang as a result of a one night stand.
After a career as a civil servant, he fled Vietnam after the Vietnam War ended in a communist victory and settled in the United States, where he continued to pursue his claim.

In Vietnam

Bửu Chánh attended the National High School at Huế, before earning a B.A. degree in literature at Huế University. He then attended Da Lat University, where he obtained a master's degrees in Political Science and Business Administration. From 1982 to 1984, he attended Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago, United States where he graduated obtaining a B.S. in Information Science. He then worked as assistant to Colonel Nguyen Be at the Ministry of Rural Revolutionary Development, Chi Linh – Vũng Tàu Center, for the Republic of Vietnam.
From 1971 to 1973, Bửu Chánh was General Director of the 4th Tactic Zone at the Ministry of Economy in Saigon and until 1975, he was Assistant General Director of the Vissan Company in the Ministry of Industry, Saigon.

In exile

After 1975, when North Vietnamese troops conquered the South, Bửu Chánh, his wife Phan Lien and their children fled to the United States. There, he founded the Vietnamese Constitutional Monarchist League. During his exile he became President of the Southeast Asia Imperial & Royal League and Vice-Chairman of The British Committee for Free Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia & Burm. Bửu Chánh is an advocate of the restoration of a constitutional monarchy in Vietnam. He believes that if the people of Vietnam have the opportunity to vote for such a system of government, they would choose it. He has hoped that he would be ascended to the throne if restored.