The family of Myanmar's last King hit out yesterday at a Thai soap opera inspired by the palace intrigue of their ancestors, accusing Thailand of double standards in how it treats another country's royals. A poster shows ‘Plerng Phra Nang’ (A Lady’s Flame), Channel 7’s hit prime-time soap opera recounting a bloody dynastic power struggle based on Burmese history. Fanclub Ch7 FacebookSoe Win, the great grandson of Myanmar's last monarch King Thibaw, told AFP his family was angered by Plerng Phra Nang or A Lady's Flame, a hit prime-time soap opera that recounts a bloody dynastic power struggle. It portrays the scheming among a key queen and princesses who orchestrated the massacre of nearly 100 people to ensure King Thibaw had no rivals to the throne following his father's death in 1878. Soe Win said he was particularly incensed by scenes in A Lady's Flame in which royal family members slapped each other.

Source: Bangkok Post March 12, 2017 23:48 UTC