Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn has reportedly flown to Germany in what is believed to be his first trip abroad since pro-democracy protests escalated last year, breaking long-held taboos to call for reforms to the monarchy.
The German tabloid Bild reported that Vajiralongkorn arrived on Monday in Bavaria, where it said he and his entourage of 250 people and 30 royal poodles had booked an entire floor of the Hilton Munich airport hotel for 11 days.
His previous prolonged stay in Bavaria, in a villa on Lake Starnberg at the height of anti-government protests last year, became a diplomatic issue in Germany when the foreign minister, Heiko Maas, warned foreign affairs of state must not be conducted from German soil.
“We have made it clear that politics concerning Thailand should not be conducted from German soil,” Maas told the Bundestag in October 2020. “If there are guests in…
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