Mom Rajawongse Narisa Chakrabongse is a Thai publisher, author, and environmental activist.
Background
She is the only daughter of Prince Chula Chakrabongse and his English wife Elizabeth Hunter. Her paternal grandfather was Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath, the Prince of Phitsanulok, who in turn was the son of King Rama V (Chulalongkorn) of Siam. As her mother was a foreign commoner, she only holds the rank of Mom Rajawongse and is not considered a member of the Thai royalty.
Narisa Chakrabongse was born in England and spent the first years of her life in Tredethy, Cornwall.
Education
Narisa Chakrabongse was born in England and spent the first years of her life in Tredethy, Cornwall. She has studied history of art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. She married the Englishman Allen Levy and has a son, the musician Hugo Chula Alexander or Chulachak Chakrabongse.
Later they divorced and she remarried Korsvasti Svasti Thomson, son of Mom Rajawongse Sai Svasti Svastivatana and Gary Thomson, and had a son, Dominic Phuwasawat Chakrabongse.
Career
Early
Chakrabongse Villas, the family home, is a small boutique hotel in Bangkok. She is the founding president of Green World Foundation (GWF), an environmental campaign organisation promoting education and awareness about issues relating to the environment in schools. A well-known media personality in Thailand, she withdrew from the torch-running ceremony for the 2008 Summer Olympics, protesting against China"s actions in Tibet, the first person to do so on political grounds, though others followed.
She is on the board of The Anglo-Thai Society, promoting good relations and cultural interchange between Thailand and the United Kingdom.