Last Princess of Myanmar, June Bellamy's Marriage to Dictator, General Ne Win
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2016
- I discovered a trailer about Yadana Nat Mai, also known as June Bellamy, on UA-cam.
June Bellamy, the last Princess of Burma, also known as Myanmar, was married to Myanmar’s Dictator U Ne Win who ruled the country from 1962 to 1988. I was interested in knowing more about this 84 year old woman who was teaching cooking in this trailer.
Nat SOT - ( pic of May Myo and her family)
My grandmother is Yadana Nat Mai aka June Bellamy’s cousin, and I remember my grandmother telling me stories about Bellamy often when I was a little girl. With the help of Directors, Barbara Andriano and Guendalina di Marco, we arranged a place where June Bellamy and I can see each other. I not only wanted to meet her to know more about my personal roots, but I wanted to understand her point of view on Burma’s history. I wanted to know why the last princess of Myanmar married the dictator of Burma.
I just watched this and when I googled her, I realised she just passed last december! May she rest in peace.
She was from the very 000LD guard. Wut do you expect, to be ancient 0ld forever...🤔🤫
“Listen, darling, there are many reasons why one marries.” LOL. Very smart and strong lady. Knew the situation for what it was.
So true
I understand what she is talking about :)
WHO'S WATCHING THIS AFTER A NEW COUP ON FEB 01, 2021!
Me
2021😅😅
Me 🌝
A New Coup on Feb 2021 ??
@@lucetothebridge yes. A new Coup
I’m not responsible for his feelings wow I needed to hear this. The women is so wise
Kaye Lin: Please do your research thoroughly. June Bellamy is not the last princess of Burma. There are many direct descendants of King Thi Baw such as Dewi Thant Zin a very well spoken lady in English. She is still alive. June Rose Bellamy was nothing else but an opportunist who should stick to her cooking classes. (Perth Australia) Burma expat.
When Ne Win married her she thought she would become Queen of Myanmar and influence the dictator. After a short marriage, not being able to influence Ne Win, after several arguments, she walked out. Eyewitnesses state she left Mingalardon Airport in anger, demanding Customs Officers not to open her luggage.
It raises the presumption of vast quantities of gems being exported out of Myanmar in her luggage, without clearance. VIP status is rescinded on divorce and diplomatic immunity ceases on divorce.
You may be right. I am not giving evidence in a court of competent jurisdiction. Happy?
There was no such diplomatic immunity applied. VIP status was still till the time she left. Burmese authorities never do anything on their own for this kind of issue. Gems is another bs.
@thamainbama You were not at the airport either, so you don't know that it isn't true. The very fact that customs would not check the baggage of VIPs in Burma gave rise to the assumption that many people of 'importance' would and could smuggle out precious stones or other illicit stuff out of the country. Probably going on to this day.
Not joking my Shan GrandMother was a royal descendant: Daw Chor Mae, look up the royal genealogy.
There are still direct living descendants of King Thibaw, so saying she is the last princess of Myanmar is misleading.
saying that she was the last Princes is not misleading because she was.
descendants is someone related to a person or group of people who lived at an earlier time.
the great grandson and granddaughter of King Thibaw are still living in Myanmar, thus June Bellamy is not the last princess.
A charming woman who was well educated speaks beautifully! Why so many negative remarks ? She never said she was the last relative, that’s what the narrator indicated! So why say mean things about her ?
Because she was a gold digger. Pretty simple
Its absurd to say she was a gold digger. Unfair !
@@JP-wx6uh not a Gold digger but a brave enough to sacrifice her life for her country but sadly she couldn't success it...
@@1msubscriberdontwatchit945 hahahaha... Oh lord. Naivity.
She had a very interesting life. Thank you for sharing this. I've been trying to learn more about Myanmar and it's history and this was an interesting piece to the story
Hail to the Princess. My ancestors were from the Burmese army of their era we are still surviving in the south East Asian part of India
No one pushed Mr Ne Win to become a dictator. When the then Revolutionary Council talked about nationalizing businesses in 1963, the late Col. Ba Ni spoke out that it was a bad idea and they should rethink about it. Ne Win was reported to have said, " If you don't like it, then don't come to these meetings anymore. " No one dared to say anything after that. Wrt Ms Bellamy knowing Ne win as a young captain, I was in Maymyo when Ne Win's ADC, Capt. Tin Oo committed suicide after being told by Mr Bellamy that his earnings were not enough for June's footwear. One thing wrong with this suicide. Capt. Tin Oo was right handed, the bullet entered his left temple. Ne Win was a Major General then and reportedly had a crush on June Rose, who was a high school student at St. Joseph's Convent. When June Rose's husband, the WHO Italian doctor who was a classmate of my father at the Univ. of Liverpool in the early 1950s, was kidnapped, the late Col. Aung Gyi, ( late Brig. General) came to our house and told my father that Ne Win had instructed my father to take his unit and rescue the doctor at a location just outside the town, and to kill all the kidnappers. My father told Col. Aung Gyi that a matter like this had to be reported to Brig Kyaw Zaw, the Northern command commander. Brig. Kyaw Zaw did exactly as Mr Ne Win ordered, rescued the doctor from the location given by Mr Ne Win and killed all the kidnappers., which meant we never know who was behind the kidnapping of June Rose's husband.
She is very beautiful and intellectual. I’m looking forward for the June 2021 release of her memoirs.
This princess is very intelligent and pretty too. has a royal class stature of her own high compared with princesses of my country royalty.she is an intellectual.and a leader.I m from Malaysia.Tq.for sharing.I love the story.
this is a very interesting interview. I loved it.
+Emmanuel Matu Thank you. I got your comment from my other channel too. Appreciate it. x
Omg!!! I love her!!! HRH reminds me of my great grand mum!!! She sounds like her her too! British English and all!!!
This is amazing. Thank you for the inspiration
Thanks for watching and your kind comment
Oh I really love Burmese Balachong. The prawns are at their best in it.
Macshil ah haha.. Our fav food.
Very nice.
Me too.
Wowwwww, Ms. Kaye Lin English!!! It must be quite interesting to have "Royal Blood" running through your veins; but it must be quite spectacular to be also related to the same Man that Overthrew the King, of which you are also related to, and then finding it out like this. (Smile) Amazing! That's inspiring, indeed.
isn't calling her the last princess a bit misleading?
thanks for sharing though, any bit of information about Myanmar is welcome!
thamainbama she ain't the last princess; there are still king thi baw's descendants in Burma.
atucally he died a long ago so she is
@thamainbama Nope. There were/are may descendants of King Thi Baw and she wasn't the last one.
princess was the king daughter
descendants = someone related to a person or group of people who lived at an earlier time.
@thamainbama misleading as in lying sense, ok?
.She was not even a princess much less the last princesse.
A woman of conviction , integrity , honesty and strength but not stoned and indifferent. Burma needs of her like & the world.
He basically ruined Burma from improving as a country.
Ok
1988 to 2020 is a long time, too. And Burma is still a poor country now. Among the poorest in SE Asia. This is everyone fault for sure.
@@ndorobei4391 Part of government fault too!Military dictator rules and corruptions and sanctions.Burmese people are strong and hardworking!The government leaders,their relatives and cronies devoured the country's cream while leaving the crumbs to the people.The rich(those connected to corrupted leaders either by blood or business)got richer and richer while the poors get poorer.Use religion to cover up their crimes!Call themselves Buddhists but never follow what Buddha preached.Biggest hyprocites!The whole country knew of their crimes,looting,corruptions and still their offsprings showed off their corrupted parents' looted wealth in social media and got upset when the people called them thieves!Stupidity at its best!
@@ndorobei4391 you know nothing about my country.. keep your words to yourself if you don’t know nothing. We may be poor but we’re not poor in character, we people of Myanmar look for ways to get out of here because of the military and government not improving any way of life in Myanmar. Many young individuals seek to work overseas to at least earn a way of normal life or normal salary that we deserve. So shut your mouth if you don’t know nothing my friend.
"Great" Britain ruined Myanmar! They were exactly the same as Soviets..
Such a wonderful personal history. June Bellamy is such an intelligent articulate beautiful lady.
Not even a dictator can rule alone, it's always a coalition.
I'm burmese I didn't know.. omg I been here for 40 years
Thanks a lot for your's video. I am fanclub of you and follow you all video. I'm Thai and in my city there are many of Burmese to go to work here. I want to speak with them and my made is Burmese. I learn Burmese and English from you to speak with her. Thanks again for you video. you so lovely and friendly
+Duangjai jummy Thanks so much for your kind comment. You truly made my week! I'm so glad you're learning English and Burmese from my channel! Please send my love to your maid*. Tell her I said to keep studying and trying! :) I love Thai culture, Thai food and the beautiful Thai people! I want to go to Thailand this year! Maybe we can have a study meet-up. ( Start with: " Nay Kaung La?" How are you?) Thanks again Duangjai kaa. :) xx
+Kaye Lin တေ့ရတာ ဝမ်တာပါတယ် ကျွန်မနာမည် ကျုမီ ထိုင်နိုင်ငံနေတယ် ရုင် ထိုင်နိုင်ငံလာဖူလား ဘယ်တော့လာမလယ်
True dignified princess
Honoured to hear from you
Regards
This is a very interesting documentary in away but she is not the last princess. Portriating her as the last princess is a bit misleading. Her father isn't even Burmese.
Interesting can you give more information about the last princess.
where is her father from?
Her father is Austrian. And the more direct descendants of the kings of Burma are alive and living in Myanmar.
@@garryjaydelfin1 Her father was Australian.
Garry Jay Delfin Do the descendants still have any power in the country?
Rest in Peace Lady Yadanar Nat Mal...
She's not the last princess. Just a mere relation to the last King doesn't make her a princess. There are still a bunch of descendants, even in India.
I agree wt u, why didn't she reply this question????
The descendants of the last king live in the konkan area called Ratnagiri. Out of 4 daughters only one returned back to Burma.
His descendants are still there in India.
@@jascintarebello3234 there are many more descendants in Myanmar.
Well said madam June B it has a reason for all of it... Please to learn something simple and truthfull
Not appropriate at all. Interviewing a relative and labeling her a spouse of dictator. Remember Burma was presented to Queen Victoria as a gift. Imagine how your former king unceremoniously banished and died in India. British treated Burma and its inhabitants as gifts!
Hi Ms Lin, we have a different school of thought as we grow up from different places . as we are different nationality our point of view will not be the same. and have a different idea. so u would not understand about our feeling. I m just saying my opinion I do not hate our last Burmese Princess, I hope you will understand about my feeling. Thanks Ms Lin.
ေက်းဇူးပါ,မသိခဲ့ရတဲ့အျဖစ္ေလးေတြသိခြင့္ရလို့,....
Helloo what is a Cambodian temple doing in this video?
Omg how old is this interview lol
Thank you!
Princess was the king Thibaw daughter.
Descendants = someone related to a person or group of people who lived at an earlier time. " king's descendants"
i'm litreally falling in love with her accent!😍
Why are you cutting off her speak instead of listing to her you talking over her .... that is rude !!
she's trying to translate for the productions sake and its annoying af
It was marriage of convenience !! Just a wordly wise decision to retain ones perks .
@The Truth in India: Marriage de convenience is not to maintain ones perks. One marries for many reasons, but above all and specially when one has big responsibilities towards one’s people. Nobless oblige!
Lol! " 5 months, sweetie !" ...love it
That's Awesome! I Thought Affiliated with Indonesian King as Hinduism > Toronto, Canada
A load of crap that others pushed Ne Win to b a dictator.
Yah you are right. She was a gold digger( wealth of Burma) and still protecting that general Ne Win.
such a beautiful person, may she rest in eternal peace.
Im assuming Princess is also a title like Princess of wales etc.
A highly intelligent and practical person. Very convincing with the truth? Judge for yourself.
oh the "Last Princess" here was because she was great grand daughter of Prince Kanaung, not of King Thibaw, who was the last king, I get it
I’m a little confused having watched a programme about the lost Myanmar Royals. What is June’s relationship with U Soe Win, the grandson of King Thibaw, who I thought was the last descendant of Myanmar’s Royalty?
Her great-grandfather prince kanaung was an uncle of King thibaw who was the last king of myanmar(burma) and great- grandfather of U soe win. So she was a descendent of Myanmar's royalty but just a collateral descendent (indirect descendent) to king thibaw and U Soe Win is a direct descendent.
@@crystalbell45 Ah 🤔. Thank you
she's not the princess of Myanmar. she the one who married (general nay win)or wise worst evil of Myanmar who's ruins everything for burmese people.wtf you mean princess?
Is she alive now, may I connect her?
yes She is alive you can write to me michelebellamypostiglione@gmail.com or follow me on FB facebook.com/michele.b.postiglione and Instagram @michele_mbp i am the son
@@myanmaractivistprince5776 she is not the last princess. Watch the documentary please. The last King's granddaughter is still alive.
Omg shes amazing.
ဖြားဖြား က်န္းမာပါေစ 💕🙏💕
She had choose to marry a ruthless dictator whom had blood on his hands with her eyes WIDE OPEN. There is no way to sweet talk her way out of it!
OMG I am from Myanmar.When she speaks in Burmese ,it is like royal speaking.It is not like us.
She is so beautifulllll
8:39 it is not 'infamous', you were ment to say 'notorious'
One can't know others', even nearest peoples' innermost feelings and way of thinking towards wordly affairs.
Getting recommended after Myanmar fell under the dictatorship again is so sad😭🥺
8:09 the temple is belong to Cambodia 🇰🇭
It is Angkor Thom Gate
You might made mistakes
Thanks
is there a book on this story?
it is a project that perhaps will come true
Its somewhat related to mainstream Burmese History.
GOOD BOOK to read
The King In Exile-By Sudha Shah
also watch
ua-cam.com/video/q-F4qEWgihQ/v-deo.html
this is kinda documentary which i have been looking for. To see the real thing in the world, you have to listen from 2 sides as a coin has head and tail.
P Pra There is nothing real in thus do called documentary, a documentary by a relative who wanted to show of their royal blood at an age where they are nobody.
@@citizenofnowhere7776 190,000 views - how do you explain this then
သိပ္ေကာင္း
😂 very humor n sweet lady
Did you just put cambodia at 3:45... lol
I cannot find the movie! Rhapsody in June
the film has not yet been made there is only the trailer
@@myanmaractivistprince5776 oh OK noted. It said march 2016. That's why I was looking for it. Thanks.
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FACT: She is not the last princess of Burma. My god.
Cite your source.
Da Wynn If you have done your research, you would not be asking for my source anymore. Are you asking me for a source because you’re too lazy to research on your own?
Is she not a princess at all? She just has that title because she married the general who later became the dictator?
Paeng Keov Officially, she is no longer princess since the monarchy has been dissolved. It’s sort of an unofficial thing.
@@paengkeov1486 She was a descendant of the last King of Burma but certainly not a princess - maybe a minor royal at most.
M sorry she pass away, I don’t think she cared about her country. She was already an Italian citizen before she got married. N will never know what deal she met with him. Not the personality I would want to see more of her videos. Where is Myanmar n where is the princess. Love to the people of of Myanmar. Hold no.. history will change.
She is not a Burmese princess. She got a lot of valuable things from that marriage (a.k.a gold digger)WTF change your video title
She is the great-granddaughter of Prince Kanaun (brother of King Thibaw).
She was not the last Princess of Burma. She was the wife of Dictator General Ne Win.
This woman was of royal blood but of an exiled Prince.
That is the problem with Bunese mentality, to twist and ignore historical facts.
not a princess coz the title princess only given to immediate members of the family or the reigning monarch. So, she's not. But, the title Noble lady would much be suited to her than to be called princess
RIP June Rose Bellamy
Ne Win surely has good taste
She may be princess of Myanmar, but not the last, because the direct descendent of King Mindon and Thibaw are still alive. One granddaughter of King Thibaw (her mohter is king Thibaw's fourth duaghter) is now 98 yrs and lives in Yangon.
Interesting
Rest in Peace 😔
Nay Win and military rules that followed, succeeded by different moron generals, are just a pure curse on Burma, the country that I love.
Burma was one of the brightest in Asia at one point but now one of the dimmest. It could've paralleled or even surpassed Singapore if they had real leaders with vision and wisdom, but what we got was shortsighted, ignorant generals who only knew how to keep their power and oppress freedom and growth.
DASSK tries as she might but still these generals are in the way of real progress. Such a mess and such a shame. SMH.
I don’t know about one of the brightest thing but at least your economy there wasn’t supposed to be as bad as now.
Your agriculture back then should be still a LOT better than Thailand
Bro I’m Burmese too, the reason why Myanmar aka Burma is underdevelopment and still poorest country in Asia is because we Burmese and minorities ethnic is fighting each other for their own territory to establish their own country which is why Burma has the longest civil war and our ethnicities will never be a unity of Myanmar
There are so many things to breakdown here.
First of all, Burmese military has been actively persecuting these minorities for decades, raping, killing, pillaging, burning villages, oppressing in many forms that amount to crime against humanity. So why would they keep taking it and not rise up and demand their own territory? They haven’t been treated fairly to say the least.
Second of all, military is full of cronies and uneducated fools at the top, who wish to run the country’s all affairs they have no business in running. Military’s role is to protect the country and that should be the extent of it. They should have absolutely no role in anything else, especially in developing the country, economy, technology, foreign policies. They’re not qualified to do such things, and no developed and successful country is led by the military government.
The international community thinks it’s horrible that Burma has been committing genocide against Rohingya, who in my opinion are hapless stateless people that aren’t an ethnic Burmese minority. Does international community even know these acts are committed by the military alone, DASSK cannot control them, and military commits the same atrocities against other ethnic minorities for decades?
DASSK should be in complete control of the country, including the military but that’s not the current reality. Military acts on its own which ends up discrediting so much work of DASSK, which is utterly a shame as it is ruining her reputation abroad. The downfall and struggle of Burma/Myanmar is largely, if not solely, on Tatmadaw military.
Amazing woman!
She is just a princess but not the last princess.
Not even a princess - just a very tenuous link to the last royals, nothing more.
I don't think I would give her the title of our princess...
And who are you?
Why not?
why not
@@zerog8369 Because she isn't. She might have been a descendant of the last King of Burma, but she wasn't a princess.
@@MTMF.london and she isn't the last princess either. In fact the last granddaughter is still alive. And many of her nieces and grandnieces
I could only endure a few minutes of her. She struck me as uppity or wanting in modesty. 💜 Burma
She's absolutely beautiful and wise. She married Nay Win because she thought she could change the country but sadly the dictator is a dictator. Once she realized, she left . Periodttttt.
I born in Burma I want to come my birth place my chief minister of GUJARAT also born in Burma
I think both of you are burmese and why didn't you use burmese language instead?
Because they can't speak Burmese fluently. 🙄🤔
Nay linn Ko Because they want to have their cake and eat it too.
Nay linn Ko this is youtube,how would they her fans know burmese it would be very narcasistic
They can use whatever they want
Wow her father was an Australian!
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2:28 - COULD ANYONE EXPLAIN WHY A BURMESE PRINCESS HAD AN ITALIAN CITIZENSHIP? THANKS.
I think because back then , Burma had good relations with Germany and Italy, France .
She so beautiful
She is passed away now
Why you don't speak Myanmar Language to each other?
Very strong woman 💚
Thanks for watching, Zarah! I love your name
She was wife of G Ne Win
1988 to 2020 is a long time, too. And Burma is still a poor country now. Among the poorest in SE Asia. This is everyone fault for sure. Not only Ne Win.
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She is not the last princess. There are still direct descendants of King Thibaw living in Burma and India.
Why are all those painted with those pale yellow paint?
I'm burmese and I live in nz because of jailed and inasent people saw we came to nz we got three at 2005 after 3 years I got born from my mom now today I'm 9 years old and it's 2017
hello, a little Kiwi
History without dates is mythology; with all due respect to June Bellamy, she is not the last Princess: it ended in Ratnagiri to simplify it.
The descendants are still here in Ratnagiri in India. There is a documentary about it.
June Bellamy descendants are not in Ratnagiri they are in Australia for crying out loud.
@@shwemoor since she was referred to the last princess. I was writing about the last king of Burma who was exiled to India. He had 4 daughters . And their descendants are in Ratnagiri India. There is a documentary about them
@@jascintarebello3234 their descendants are in Myanmar as well. Watch the documentary
royality already is a kind of dictatorship with a title...