page_title: Thibaw Min
section_title: Early life
hierarchical_section_title: Thibaw Min / Early life
caption_attribution_description: English: King Thibaw, Queen Supayalat and her sister Princess Supayalay, made from a negative found in the Royal Palace, Mandalay.
context_page_description: Thibaw Min, also Thebaw or Theebaw was the last king of the Konbaung Dynasty of Burma and also the last Burmese sovereign in the country's history. His reign ended when Burma was defeated by the forces of the British Empire in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, on 29 November 1885, prior to its official annexation on 1 January 1886.
context_section_description: Prince Thibaw was born Maung Pu (မောင်ပု), the son of King Mindon and one of his consorts, Laungshe Mibaya. Thibaw's mother had been banished from the palace court by Mindon and spent her final years as a thilashin, a kind of female Burmese Buddhist renunciant. During the early years of his life, Thibaw studied Buddhist texts at a kyaung to win his father's favor. He passed the Pahtamabyan religious examinations and gained respect and recognition from his father and the chief queen.
  One of Mindon's chief consorts, the Queen of the Middle Palace, Hsinbyumashin, helped to broker a marriage between her second daughter, Supayalat and Thibaw, who were half-siblings by blood.
caption: A photograph of King Thibaw and his wives, half-sisters Supayalat and Supayalay (November 1885)
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