The royal family's reign lasted just seven years when Thibaw Min was defeated in the Third Anglo-Burmese War and forced to abdicate by the British in 1885. On 25 November 1885 they were taken away in a covered carriage, leaving Mandalay Palace by the southern gate of the walled city along the streets lined by British soldiers and their wailing subjects, to the River Irrawaddy where a steamboat called "Thuriya" (Sun) awaited. Supayagyi and the queen mother were sent to Tavoy (now Dawei). She died with buddhist num life on 25 February 1912 in Mingun after her mother, who died in 1900. Her remains were interred in the southern section of Shwedagon Pagoda in modern-day Yangon.