Norodom Sihanouk

Norodom Sihanouk (October 31, 1922 – October 15, 2012) was the King of Cambodia from 1941 to 1955 and again from 1993 to 2004. He was in the Guinness Book of Records because he had had the most political duties in the world. He served as the 1st, 12th, 16th, 20th, 23rd, 25th, 27th, 35th, and 37th Prime Minister of Cambodia. He was exiled in 2004 and later left his throne in the same year.

Sihanouk was born on October 31, 1922 in Phnom Penh, French Indochina. He studied at the Cavalry Military School. Sihanouk was married six times. His last wife was Norodom Monineath from 1952 until his death in 2012. Sihanouk had 14 children. He had suffered prostate cancer.Cambodia's Ex-King Cites Progress Against His Cancer Yahoo news,  2 March 2009 Sihanouk died on October 15, 2012 while on a trip to Beijing, China from a heart attack, aged 89.

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 Official site
 Genealogy of the Cambodian Royal Family
 News release regarding support of gay marriage
 News release regarding his website
  Cambodian politicians biography 
 Official Contact with the IPSP 
 New York Times 


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