This week’s purple phenomenon is a fairy tale befitting HRH Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn, as her life story seems to have come straight out of children’s bedtime publishing house.
The royal motorcade incident is one big irony happening to a royal family member who, in the words of a senior journalist following her to an Asean neighboring country decades ago, “walked like all of us oblivious to cats, dogs and chicken cutting in front of her.”
Had the 68-year-old princess been a “more serious” state guest, local officials responsible for her welcoming would have been punished. They must have thanked God for her free-spirited, unassuming and spontaneous personality.
It was debatable exactly why the motorcade incident happened, but if it was a political blunder, a far bigger one would be to assume that the purple campaign was staged because some groups conspired to hit…
