He is an artist from a royal family, who does not love power, does not love art, and is full of dancing skills. He has outstanding appearance, but he pursues the three principles of not falling in love, not getting married, and not having children, and he is still unmarried. He was forced to succeed to the throne at the age of 51, but he tried to avoid getting involved in politics and rarely used royal power. He is the 49th King of Cambodia, Norodom Sihamoni, known as the Smiling King.
On May 14, 1953, Norodom Sihamoni was born in the royal family of Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia. His father, Sihanouk, was the king of Cambodia, with the royal blood of Norodom and Sisowa, who led the Cambodian people from French colonial rule and was very loved by the people and was known as the father of the nation. Mother Monilian was born in a bourgeois family, is of mixed French and Cambodian descent, and is known as the most beautiful queen. His mother's good looks were also inherited to Sihamoni, so he was outstanding since he was a child. The Siha in Sihamoni's name comes from his father and Moni comes from his mother. From the name, you can see that his father doted on him.
Sihamoni has studied Cambodian classical dance with his sister Norodom and Princess Phra Hua David since he was a child, and has a great passion for art. When he was eight years old, he happened to see a ballet stage play, Romeo and Juliet, and became fascinated by ballet.
In 1962, at the age of nine, Sihamoni went to study in the Czech Republic, where he studied ballet, piano and French, and even practiced dance after class. He was often selected by the troupe to participate in filming and performances, and gradually became famous in Europe. He is still a minor, and he has already begun to earn his own appearance fees. Later, he entered the ** Academy of Arts in the Czech Republic, where he obtained a doctorate. Sihamoni, who has been studying abroad, escaped the US air raids and the Lon Nol coup, but after the Khmer Rouge ** came to power, Sihamoni was still forced to be involved in the whirlpool of power.
In 1975, after the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, they pretended to cooperate with Sihanouk to win him back to Cambodia, but in fact they only wanted to use Sihanouk's prestige to win the support of the people, and they put Sihanouk under house arrest.
In 1976, the Khmer Rouge regime invited Sihamoni to return to China on the pretext of celebrating the first anniversary of the capture of Phnom Penh. Upon his return, he was also placed under house arrest in the palace. It wasn't until 1979, when Vietnam invaded Cambodia and Phnom Penh soon fell, that Sihamoni and his parents took the opportunity to escape from the palace and come to China. During this time, Sihamoni became his father's personal secretary. In the day and night together, the relationship between father and son is getting better and better, and the father also recognizes that he wants Sihamoni to inherit his throne. But as an artist, Sihamoni was free-spirited, and he loved art more than kingship.
In 1981, Sihamoni left his father and no longer served as his personal secretary, but he still cared about his artistic career and went to Paris to study. Sihamoni quickly received several offers for his full-fledged dance skills, and in the end, he chose to work as a professor of classical dance and art at the Mozart Academy in Paris, where she lived freely in France for nearly 20 years, during which time she had a French girlfriend and planned to give up her royal status. Get married, have children, and live an ordinary life here.
During this period, Cambodia** wanted him to serve as Cambodia's ambassador to France, but he also refused. But it backfired, and Sihanouk didn't have a few children. Sihamoni's brothers were killed and wounded in that coup d'état, pushing Siha 74223 Moni 532 to the forefront of the times.
In 1993, he finally became a civil servant to prepare for the follow-up. Later, he served as Cambodia's representative to UNESCO in Paris and Cambodia's representative to UNESCO, and made his own contribution to Cambodian culture.
On October 6, 2004, King Sihanouk of Cambodia, who lived in Beijing, issued a letter to the nation, announcing his abdication from the throne. In fact, Sihanouk was not in good health and had the idea of abdicating, but he was worried that the situation in Cambodia would be volatile and the new king would not be able to cope with it, so he did not abdicate for a long time. Before his abdication, he publicly expressed his support for Sihamoni's succession to the throne, saying in an open letter to the nation that Sihamoni was an honest patriot who would share weal and woe with the people of the country no matter what the circumstances. At this time, there were two candidates for the throne of Cambodia, one was Sihamoni and the other was his elder brother, Prince Lanariel. However, Prince Ranaree has a background in the Bong-Bekat Party, served as prime minister, and had a conflict with the leader at the time, Hun Sen, and his succession will inevitably bring new chaos to Cambodia, so Sihamoni is the best choice, he is neutral, does not intervene in politics, and does not belong to any party. So when the members of the throne committee were elected, nine members, including Prime Minister Hun Sen, unanimously elected Sihamoni to succeed to the throne.
On October 29, 2004, 51-year-old Norodom Sihamoni took the oath of the throne in the palace's Golden Luang Palace, sitting on the throne he did not want to sit on. After ascending the throne, he still tried to avoid getting involved in politics and rarely exercised royal power. However, as an old friend of China, he often comes to China to wander around. He has to visit his mother who lives in Beijing every year, has to come for routine medical check-ups every year, and has also come to China for state visits many times.
In 2016, it also donated to the flooded areas of our country. In 2008, when he led a delegation to visit Shanghai, he not only visited the Shanghai Film Museum, the Pudong Museum, and the site of the First National Congress of the Communist Party of China, but also observed the Lady of the Camellias performed by the Shanghai Ballet, and prepared gifts for the dancers. Deep down, he still can't let go of his love for dance, and although he is reluctant, Sihamoni knows his responsibility.
Since his succession to the throne, Sihamoni's smiling face has appeared in various Cambodian newspapers. The pundits gave him high marks for his performance in office, believing that he did everything he was supposed to do. He made 13 million Cambodians accept him, impressed the people with his smile and gentle charm, and made the people love him. In addition to official diplomatic visits, Sihamoni frequently traveled to the countryside, so Cambodians were able to meet the king in the countryside, and everyone felt that the king cared about the lives of ordinary people.
Sihamoni, who is unmarried and childless, still abides by his three no's principles, does not fall in love, does not get married, does not have children, and does not even have scandals, and Cambodia has also discussed it. Some say that he was too hurt by his French lover, some say that he is gay, and there is also a theory that the Cambodian royal family has always been looking for a mate among their cousins to protect the royal blood from leaking, and King Sihamoni has received a Western education and cannot accept this kind of relative marriage, so he chose not to marry. Sihamoni's own response was very official, getting married and having children will consume a lot of my time and energy, but I can't do what I want to do wholeheartedly. Whatever the truth, Sihamoni will probably dedicate the rest of his life to his country and people. Biography of people in the world