Many people wearing purple, the colourrepresenting Saturday, the day the princess was born in 1955, flocked to Sala Sahathai Samakhom at the Grand Palace in Bangkok and to select places in other provincesarranged for Thais to write birthdaymessages to Her Royal Highness.
Her Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn releases a freshwater stingray and other kinds of fish at Tha Wasukri Pier into the Chao Phraya River as part of a merit-making rite to mark her 60th birthday.