05.05.1984–?
Aditayadorn Kitikhun
Princess Aditayadorn Kitikhun, the younger daughter of Princess Chulabhorn, completed a design degree in Bangkok and wrote her thesis on redesigning the packaging of agricultural products from the royal Chitralada project. She designs brochures and posters, creates patterns for shirts and bags sold to raise money for temple restoration, and runs a model farming project in Surin province.
Biography
Her graduation thesis was titled “Redesign Packaging for Royal Chitralada Agricultural Products”. It was shown at the annual Media Arts Exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre from 2 to 5 August 2011.
The author of the thesis was born in Bangkok on 5 May 1984. Her mother, Princess Chulabhorn Walailak, is a daughter of King Rama IX, and her father, Virayudh Tishyasarin, served as an officer in the Royal Thai Air Force. She has an older sister, Siribha Chudabhorn, born in 1982. Under Thai law the descendants of a marriage to a commoner cannot inherit the throne, but her parents’ marriage was recognised as dynastic under a special law issued by the king. On 12 June 1984, following old royal tradition, the ceremony of the first month and the raising of the cradle was held. Her title at birth was Phra Chao Lan Thoe Phra Ong Chao; in 2019, at the coronation of Rama X, she received the higher title Phra Chao Worawong Thoe Phra Ong Chao.
From 1987 the girl attended kindergarten at Chitralada School. From 1996 she and her sister lived with their father in Maryland, in the United States. She studied at the Art Institute of Washington, then moved to the Art Institute of California to study fashion design; she was drawn to graphic design and animation. After returning to Thailand she transferred her accumulated credits to Mahidol University International College and studied for a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Design. The course was completed in the 2010 academic year. Her aunt, Princess Sirindhorn, presented her with the diploma on 4 July 2011. The thesis, a packaging project under the motto “Living Harmony”, was shown at the same time. Assistant Professor Surapong Lertsitthichai judged it successful and distinctive. The work was exhibited alongside that of graduates in painting and fine arts.
She also uses design for charity. In 2012 she created a design for a shirt, “Thung Phukhao Thong”, and the money from its sale went to the restoration of the Phukhao Thong temple. In 2013, together with the artist Thawan Duchanee, she made a pattern for a shirt and a cloth bag, “Chang Nopphasubanna”; the funds were meant for the restoration of a temple in Ayutthaya province that had been damaged by the 2011 flood. She also regularly designs brochures and posters for the royal family.
The royal duties she carries out concern art, Buddhism and model agricultural projects. One of them, begun on her own initiative, is in Surin province and is built on King Rama IX’s philosophy of the sufficiency economy. Her name has been given there to a farming project, a learning centre and a project called “Sarai Aditaya” (in Khmer, “the princess’s field”), as well as to a number of buildings in temples and at Mahidol University.
On 21 November 2017 she received a graduate certificate in agricultural technology from Rajamangala University of Technology. In 2019 she was awarded the Order of Chula Chom Klao, first class, the King Rama X Royal Cypher Medal and the King Rama X Coronation Medal.
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