• In this photo released on Sunday, August 12, 2018, by the Royal Household Bureau, the Queen Sirikit, center of Thailand, visited by her children King Maha Vjiralongkorn and Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn in the Chitralada Palace on the 86th birthday of the Queen in Bangkok , Thailand. The Thai royal palace has announced that the queen, the mother of King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, is hospitalized with flu. (The Royal Household Bureau through AP) Photo: AP / The Royal Household Bureau

In this photo released on Sunday, August 12, 2018, by the Royal Household Bureau, the Queen Sirikit, center of Thailand, visited by her children King Maha Vjiralongkorn and Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn in the Chitralada Palace on the 86th birthday of the Queen in Bangkok , Thailand. The Thai royal palace has announced that the queen, the mother of King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, is hospitalized with flu. (The Royal Household Agency through AP) less
In this photo, which was released on Sunday, August 12, 2018 by the Royal Household, the Queen Sirikit in Thailand by her children King Maha Vjiralongkorn and Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn … more

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BANGKOK (AP) – The Thai queen Sirikit is treated in a hospital for flu.

The Royal Palace said Monday that she was hospitalized on Sunday in the Chulalongkorn hospital with fever and cough and received medication. She was recovering but remains hospitalized on the recommendation of her doctors.

The mother of King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun became on August 12 86.

Sirikit has been ill for several years. She is the widow of King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died in 2016.