Elephants hail Thai King
Marching in lockstep outside the royal palace in Bangkok’s historic old quarter, 11 elephants bowed and trumpeted in homage to Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn yesterday, a day after the monarch’s three-day coronation ceremony. The ritual-laden event ended on Monday with the newly crowned 66-year-old monarch granting Thais a public audience from a balcony of the Grand Palace, where thousands gazed up at him and waved Thailand’s national flag. Dressed in yellow silk shawls and wearing saffron flower garlands, the white-powdered elephants -- Thailand’s national animal -- performed a 10-step jig to symbolise the 10th reign of the Chakri dynasty ushered in by the formal crowning of Vajiralongkorn, or Rama X.
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