King of Cambodia not attending Wills-Kat wedding
April 22nd, 2011 - 6:48 pm ICT by ANI
London, April 22 (ANI): Cambodia King Norodom Sihamoni has sensationally snubbed Prince William and his fiancee Kate Middleton by not replying to the couple’s wedding invitation.
He is the only royal out of dozens worldwide who has failed to respond, reports the Sun.
However, Sihamoni, 57, a shaven-headed former ballet dancer and instructor, is not the first Cambodian king to snub a British royal wedding.
In 1963, his dad Sihanouk refused to attend Princess Alexandra’s wedding after being told he would not get a guard of honour and could not stay at Windsor Castle.
Sihamoni, who took the throne in 2004, lived under house arrest with his dad in the 1970s while the Khmer Rouge regime murdered 1.5 million Cambodians. (ANI)
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