Hteik Su Phaya Gyi

Hteik Su Phaya Gyi
The princess at her home in Yangon in 2018
BornHteik Su Phaya Gyi
(1923-04-05)5 April 1923
Rangoon (now Yangon), British Burma
Died31 December 2021(2021-12-31) (aged 98)
Yangon, Myanmar
Spouse
Maung Maung Khin
(m. 1943; died 1984)
DynastyKonbaung
FatherKo Ko Naing
MotherMyat Phaya Galay
ReligionTheravada Buddhism

Princess Hteik Su Phaya Gyi (Burmese: ထိပ်စုဘုရားကြီး pronounced [tʰeɪʔ sṵ pʰə.yá dʑí]; 5 April 1923 – 31 December 2021), also known as Su Su Khin or Pwar May or Princess Tessie,[1] was a Burmese princess and the final surviving royal of the Konbaung dynasty. Daughter of Princess Myat Phaya Galay (a daughter of the last king of Burma),[2][3][4] she was a senior member of the Royal House of Konbaung.[5]

Upon the death of her younger brother Taw Phaya in 2019, she became the last living grandchild of King Thibaw.[1]

  1. ^ a b "သီပေါနောက်က တော်ဘုရားများ". BBC News (in Burmese). 10 February 2019.
  2. ^ "Understanding the old kingdom in the new Myanmar". The Myanmar Times. 25 February 2013. Archived from the original on 5 January 2022. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
  3. ^ "Planète. La princesse oubliée". Le Républicain Lorrain (in French). 1 December 2013.
  4. ^ "ထိပ်စုဖုရားကြီးနဲ့ သမိုင်းအမွေ (Hteik Su Phaya Gyi and Historical Heritage)". VOA Burmese (in Burmese). 12 November 2013.
  5. ^ "အလုပ်အကိုင် ခက်ခဲစွာ ရှာဖွေရပ်တည် ခဲ့ရရှာတဲ့ ကုန်းဘောင်မင်းဆက် အနွယ်တော်ရဲ့ ဘဝဖြတ်သန်းမှု". Mizzima (in Burmese). 27 January 2016.