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Photography by Henry Clarke

Queen Sirikit of Thailand, seated on a gilded bed in the King’s gold-curtained coronation pavilion, wearing a dress of twenty-carat gold embossed with crystal, by Pierre Balmain, and gold jewelry set with diamonds at her wrists, neck, and waist. Photographed by Henry Clarke.
“The Golden Court of Thailand: H. M. King Bhumibol Adulyadej and H. M. Queen Sirikit” was originally published in the February 1965 issue of Vogue.
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