Queen Sirikit, 78, has been admitted to Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok for a “detailed checkup,” local television reported Friday. The queen is the wife of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world’s longest-serving monarch, who visited her on Friday, the reports said. The king, the country’s sole unifying figure through decades of sporadic political upheaval, has been at another Bangkok hospital for just over a year undergoing physical rehabilitation. He was admitted in September 2009 for treatment of fatigue and lung inflammation.
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