Supayalat

Hteik Supayalat ( officially Sri Suriya Prabha Ratna Devi, also Princess Myadaung; born December 13, 1859 in Mandalay, Burma; † November 24, 1925 in Rangoon, British India) was the last queen of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma.

Biography

Supayalat was a daughter of King Mindon Min and his wife Alenandaw, also called Hsinbyumashin.

Supayalat was married to her half-brother Thibaw Min, who in 1878 set as the last king of the Konbaung dynasty on the throne. It has become particularly known for the staging of their massacre of eighty to one hundred members of the royal family, through which they ausschaltete potential rivals to the throne. You always rejected any knowledge of such a plan, referred to her mother and some ministers, including the Chancellor Mingyi U Kaung Kinwun.

Supayalat is portrayed as a strong personality who fearlessly was also at the sight of bare arms, in contrast to her husband, King Thibaw min Along with this it was after the defeat of upper Burma against the British, first to Ceylon and eventually Ratnagiri near Bombay (India) sent into exile. She returned in 1919 to Rangoon and died there on 25 November 1925.