Supayalay
{{Short description|Burmese queen consort (1863–1912)}}
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| succession = Princess of Yamethin
| reign = 1863 – 1878
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| successor = disestablished
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| birth_name = Hteik Supayalay
| birth_date = {{birth-date|1863}}
| birth_place = Mandalay
| death_date = {{death-date and age|25 June 1912|1863}}
| death_place = Ratnagiri, British India
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| spouse = Thibaw Min
| spouse-type = Spouse
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| regnal name = သီရိသုပဘာရတနာဒေဝီ
{{IAST|Sīrisupabhāratanādevī}}
| house = Konbaung
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| father = Mindon Min
| mother = Hsinbyumashin
| religion = Theravada Buddhism
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Supayalay ({{langx|my|စုဖုရားလေး}}; 1863 – 25 June 1912) was a junior queen consort of the Konbaung dynasty, and was married to her half-brother Thibaw Min, the last monarch in the dynasty, in 1878. She was one of the three only queens of King Thibaw.{{cite news |last1=Dutta |first1=Abhijit |title=The broken Glass Palace |url=https://www.livemint.com/Leisure/ZEFG4nu252ADPF3F8h95MP/The-broken-Glass-Palace.html |work=mint |date=14 October 2016 |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Not the right time to repatriate King Thibaw, says descendant |url=https://www.mmtimes.com/national-news/130-not-the-right-time-to-repatriate-king-thibaw-says-descendant.html |work=The Myanmar Times |date=13 August 2012}}{{cite book |title=Myanmar Architecture: Cities of Gold |year=2005 |publisher=Times Editions, Marshall Cavendish |isbn=978-981-232-916-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yajWAAAAMAAJ&q=Supayalay+third |language=en}}{{cite news |title=Hteik Suphayalay, Queen of King Thibaw |url=https://www.thutazone.net/ကုန္းေဘာင္-ေနာက္ဆုံးဧကရ/4-1251/|work=Thutazone}}
Early life
File:Thibaw Min 1885 crop.jpg and King Thibaw]]
Supayalay, born in 1863 at the Royal Palace, in Mandalay as Hteik Supayalay, was the youngest of three daughters between King Mindon and Hsinbyumashin.{{Cite book|title=The King In Exile : The Fall Of The Royal Family Of Burma|last=Shah|first=Sudha|date=2012-06-14|publisher=Harper Collins|isbn=9789350295984|language=en}} She was a full-blooded sister of Supayagyi and Supayalat. She received the appanage of Yamethin and was therefore known as the Princess of Yamethin, with the royal title of Sri Suriya Singha Ratna Devi.{{cite book |last1=Ṅayʻ (Moṅʻ.) |first1=Phe |title=Ra noṅʻ Moṅʻ Moṅʻ Tutʻ: Ratanā puṃ nanʻʺ tvaṅʻʺ lyhuí vhakʻ jātʻ lamʻʺ myāʺ |year=2004 |publisher=Paññā Rvhe Toṅʻ Cā ʼupʻ tuikʻ |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWILAQAAMAAJ&q=စုဖုရားလေး |language=my}}
Her marriage was never consummated, and Supayalat was said to have forced monogamy on a Burmese king for the first and the last time in history, even though Thibaw also subsequently married her eldest sister Hteik Supayagyi.
Exile
File:King_Thebaw_-Ratnagiri.jpg
The royal family's reign lasted just seven years when Thibaw Min was defeated in the Third Anglo-Burmese War and forced to abdicate by the British in 1885. On 25 November 1885 they were taken away in a covered carriage, leaving Mandalay Palace by the southern gate of the walled city along the streets lined by British soldiers and their wailing subjects, to the River Irrawaddy where a steamboat called Thuriya (Sun) awaited. They were exiled to the remote coastal town of Ratnagiri in India, where they lived for over 30 years. Her sister Supayagyi and the queen mother were sent to Tavoy (now Dawei).{{Cite web|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/asia/burma/forty/18.html|title=Forty Years in Burma, by John Ebenezer Marks|website=anglicanhistory.org|access-date=2018-10-04}} She died on 25 June 1912 at Ratnagiri, India.{{cite book |title=Myanmar Architecture: Cities of Gold |year=2005 |publisher=Times Editions, Marshall Cavendish |isbn=978-981-232-916-5 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yajWAAAAMAAJ&q=Supayalay |language=en}}