Ubol Ratana
Ubol Ratana (born
April 5,
1951), is the oldest child of King
Bhumibol Adulyadej and Queen
Sirikit Kitiyakara of
Thailand. She was born with the titles of Her Royal Highness and Princess, but gave up her royal status on marrying the American Peter Ladd Jensen, whom she met while studying at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She later did graduate work in
public health at the
University of California Los Angeles. They have three children. After years of rumored marital problems their divorce was officially announced in
1998. Ubol Ratana returned to Thailand where she now acts in a semi-official capacity as "public relations princess".