Norodom Monineath Sihanouk is the Queen Mother of Cambodia.
14 Facts About Norodom Monineath
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Norodom Monineath was Queen of Cambodia from 1993 to 2004, as the wife of King Norodom Sihanouk.
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Norodom Monineath is the widow of King-Father Norodom Sihanouk, whom she married in 1955 as the "secondary consort".
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Monineath and King Sihanouk had two children: Norodom Sihamoni and Norodom Narindrapong; both were born before their parents married.
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Norodom Monineath was born on 18 June 1936, in Saigon, French Indochina, in present-day Vietnam.
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Norodom Monineath was born Paule-Monique Izzi, and is sometimes referred to as Queen Monique.
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Norodom Monineath's father, Jean-Francois Izzi, was a French banker of Corsican, French and Italian descent, who was Director of Credit Foncier in Saigon, and killed in World War II.
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Norodom Monineath studied at the Primary School Norodom, Sisowath High School, and the Lycee Rene Descartes.
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Norodom Monineath met Norodom Sihanouk in 1951, when he awarded her first prize in a beauty pageant.
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Norodom Monineath has been described as the close confidant of Sihanouk.
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In 1973, Norodom Monineath Sihanouk allied himself with the Khmer Rouge against their common enemy, Lon Nol.
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Norodom Monineath spent the following years with her husband as state guests of China and North Korea.
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Norodom Monineath is credited to have played some part in the peace negotiations arranged between Sihanouk and Hun Sen by Tong Siv Eng in 1987 and 1988, and she is known to have been present during the negotiations.
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Norodom Monineath is currently the Cambodian Red Cross Honorary President.