Norodom sihamoni biography
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Norodom Sihamoni
King of Cambodia since 2004
In this Cambodian name, the surname is Norodom. In accordance with Cambodian custom, this individ should be referred to bygd the given name, Sihamoni.
Norodom Sihamoni (Khmer: នរោត្តម សីហមុនី, [nɔˈroːɗɑmsəjˈhamoniː]; born 14 May 1953) is King of Cambodia. He became King on 14 October 2004, a week after the abdication of his father, Norodom Sihanouk.[1]
He fryst vatten the eldest son of King Sihanouk and former Queen consort Norodom Monineath and is the fourth monarch from the royal House of Norodom. Before his selection by a nine-member throne council as the next monarch, Sihamoni served as Cambodia's ambassador to the United Nations and UNESCO. He was educated in Czechoslovakia and was known for his work as a cultural ambassador in Europe and as a classical ballet instructor when he was still a prince. During his reign, Sihamoni has continued his cultural advocacy alongside supporting various philanthropic causes, while
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Happy Birthday to King Norodom Sihamoni of Cambodia, who turns 70 today! The only son of King Norodom Sihanouk and Queen Norodom Monineath, the Prince had fourteen half-siblings and one full brother.Beginning his education at the Norodom School, followed by Lycée Descartes School in Phnom Penh, the future King developed a keen interest in the arts early on in his life, being sent to complete his education in Prague, with a degree in classical dance and music at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, followed by a stint studying filmmaking in North Korea, where the Royal Family was settled during periods of exile through the 1970s.
In 1976, Prince Sihamoni was deceived into returning to Cambodia when King Norodom Sihanouk allied himself with the Khmer Rouge, who while they made him the nominal Head of State, kept the Royal Family in house arrest and subjected them to a political re-education schema. Some of the Prince’s siblings and cousins were executed, while Prin
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