Sukumalmarsri
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Queen Sukumalmarsri (Thai:สมเด็จพระนางเจ้าสุขุมาลมารศรี พระอัครราชเทวี) (10 May 1861-9 July 1927) was a daughter of King Mongkut (Rama IV) and Chao Chom Manda Samli (เจ้าจอมมารดาสำลี). Her given name is Princess Sukumalmarsri (พระองค์เจ้าสุขุมาลมารศรี). She was the third senior of the four queen consorts of King Chulalongkorn (Rama V).
Her Majesty Queen Sukumalmarsri was born at the royal palace. She was a daughter of His Majesty King Mongkut and Chao Chom Marnda Sumli, as a child of the monarch she was styled HRH Princess Sukumalmarsri from birth. Sukumalmarsri was a younger half-sister, and later, Queen of King Chulalongkorn.
At age 17 the teen princess Sukumalmarsri was married to His Majesty the King Chulalongkorn, her older half-brother. She gave birth to HRH Princess Sutatipyaratana, the Princess of Ratanakosin who was the second but first surviving Chao-fah (the children of a monarch whose mother was queen or the Thai royal princess, a higher rank than the children of a monarch whose mother was not royal) it has been said that if Sutatip was born male she must inherit the title of Crown Prince.
As a mother of Chao-fah Sukumalmarsri was styled Phra-Nang-Tur. She was the first royal woman who received the crown of Siam's Queen (เครื่องอิสริยยศราชูปโภคลงยาราชาวดี) and was then styled Phra-Nang-Chao after she gave birth to Prince Baripatra (often translated as HRH the Princess Consort).
She was the private secretary of her husband.
She received the style "Queen" from her nephew, Vajirawut, and in time of King Phracadipok she was styled as Her Majesty the Queen Aunt.
(Note unlike her younger half sister, the Queen Grandmother - at that time both Queen's titles were translated as "Queen Aunt", but in Thai they are different Sukumalmarsri was below Sawangwaddhana. สมเด็จพระศรีสวรินทิราบรมราชเทวี พระพันวัสสา มาตุจฉาเจ้า และ สมเด็จพระปิตุจฉาเจ้าสุขุมาลมารศรี พระอัครราชเทวี
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