Ngarmchit Purachatra

Ngarmchit Purachatra na Ayudhya (7 June 1915 – 18 October 1983), née Ngarmchit Sarasas, also known after her husband as Princess Prem Purachatra, was a Thai princess by marriage and an advocate for charity and for women. Life Her birth name has been transliterated as Ngamchitti, Ngarmchit or Ngarm Jittra. She was the daughter of (Long Sundananda), who was lieutenant general. Her father was involved in the Siamese revolution of 1932 and was briefly Minister of Economic Affairs in 1937. A supporter of the Japanese cause, he lived from 1940 in his Japan exile, where he wrote a book about his country of origin. Her mother was Sawat Asavananda. Ngarmchit Sarasas had one elder brother, and three younger sisters. She attended schools in Bangkok and later began studying pharmacy at Sorbonne in France, when her father served there at the Thai embassy. During this time, she learned French, English and Spanish. In 1939, she returned to Thailand because of the outbreak of World War II. In the following year, on 22 January 1940, she married Prince Prem Purachatra (12 August 1915 – 24 July 1981), the grandson of king Chulalongkorn and only son of Purachatra Jayakara. Her husband was a literary scholar who was known for translating classical Thai poems and theater plays into English. The couple had no children, but adopted one son.