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Here Are the Foreign Dignitaries Coming to Royal Funeral

BANGKOK — Dozens of foreign dignitaries, royals and heads of state are due to attend King Rama IX’s cremation next week.

Traveling from more than 40 countries, they are slated to attend the Oct. 26 cremation, according to a list released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Here’s a preliminary list of expected so far.

Royals

1 Prince Andrew, Duke of York

2 Prince Akishino Fumihito and Princess Kiko of Japan

3 Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck and Jetsun Pema of Bhutan

4 Nazrin Shah of Perak and Deputy King of Malaysia with Tuanku Zara Salim

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5 King Letsie III and Queen ‘Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho

6 Queen Silvia of Sweden

7 Queen Sofia of Spain

8 Queen Maxima of the Netherlands

9 Queen Mathilde of Belgium

10 Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark

11 Crown Prince Haakon of Norway

12 Prince Guillaume, Hereditary Grand Duke of Luxembourg

13 Princess Margaretha of Liechtenstein

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14 King Tupou IV and Queen Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho of Tonga

Photo: LeliseliTongaFollow / Wikimedia Commons

15 Thani bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, brother of the Emir of Qatar Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

16 Prime Minister Hun Sen of Cambodia

17 James Mattis, US Secretary of Defense

18 President Halimah Yacob of Singapore and Mohammed Abdullah Alhabshee

19 Vice President Dang Thi Ngoc Thinh of Vietnam

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20 President Htin Kyaw of Myanmar and Su Su Lwin

21 President Bounnhang Vorachith of Laos

22 M. J. Akbar, Minister of State for External Affairs of India

Photo: Mubasshir Mushtaq / Wikimedia Commons

23 Vice Speaker Park Ju-seon of the National Assembly of South Korea

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24 Alan Peter Cayetano, Secretary of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines

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25 Khawaja Muhammad Asif, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Pakistan and Musarrat Asif

Photo: USAID Pakistan / Wikimedia Commons

26 Tilak Marapana, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka and Stella Marapana

Image: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sri Lanka / YouTube

27 Giambattista Diquattro, Apostolic Nuncio to India and Nepal

Photo: Giambattista Diquattro – Apostolic Nunciature in India and Nepal / Facebook

28 Prime Minister Barnabas Sibusiso Dlamini of Swaziland

29 Sir Peter Cosgrove, Governor-General of Australia and Lynne Cosgrove

Photo: Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia

30 Julie Payette, Governor-General of Canada

31 Jean-Marc Ayrault, former Prime Minister of France and Brigitte Terrien

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32 Christian Wulff, former President of Germany

33 Joseph Deiss, former President of the Swiss Confederation

Photo: Jean-Bernard Sieber / Flickr

34 Olga Epifanova, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation

Photo: Russian Embassy in Thailand / Facebook

35 Pehin Dato Lim Jock Seng, Brunei Darussalam’s Second Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade

36 Megawati Sukarnoputri, former President of Indonesia

 

37 Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Prime Minister of Bahrain

38 James Brendan Bolger, former Prime Minister of New Zealand

39 Zhang Gaoli, Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China

40 Mohammed Shahriar Alam, State Minister of Foreign Affairs

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41 Bhimsen Das Pradhan, Minister of Defense of Nepal

42 Fikri Işık, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey

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