Queen Sirikit was born in 1932 at the house of General Chao Phraya Wongsanuprapat (Mom Rajawongse Staan Snidwongse), her maternal grandfather, in Bangkok and was educated at Saint Francis Xavier, a Catholic convent school. She had a younger sister, Busba. During her childhood her father was successively Thai Ambassador to France, Denmark and the United Kingdom, and Sirikit continued her education in these countries and in Switzerland.
Born as Mom Rajawongse Sirikit Kitiyakorn, she was the first daughter of Colonel Mom Chao Nakkhatra Mangkala Kitiyakorn (who was given the title Prince Chanthaburi Suranath after his daughter's marriage), a relative and close supporter of the Royal Family. Her mother was Mom Luang Bua Kitiyakorn (nee Mom Luang Bua Snidwongse). The title "Mom Rajawongse" indicates that she is a child of a Mom Chao (the most junior class of Thai princes) and thus descended from royalty. Her grandfather was HRH Prince Kitiyakorn Voralaksana, Prince of Chandaburi, a son of King Rama V and an elder half-brother of HRH Prince Mahidol of Songkla, King Bhumibol's father, which makes her a first cousin once removed of her husband.
Queen Sirikit's birthday, like the King's, is a national holiday, and is also
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