Khin The

Khin The Sirimahāratanamaṅgaladevī
Statue of Khin The
Queen of the Northern Palace
Tenure	26 March 1853 – 3 May 1872
Coronation	6 April 1853
Predecessor	Thiri Maha Yadana Dewi II
Successor	Supayalat
Born	Me Nyunt December 1813 or January 1814 Pyatho 1175 ME[note 1] Nyaung-kan, Monywa District, Konbaung Burma
Died	3 May 1872 (aged 58) Friday, 12th waning of Kason 1234 ME Mandalay, Konbaung Burma
Burial	Mandalay Palace
Spouse	Mindon Min
Issue	None
Regnal name Sirimahāratanamaṅgaladevī (သီရိမဟာရတနာမင်္ဂလာဒေဝီ)
House	Konbaung
Father	Tha Phyu
Mother	Min Hla
Religion	Theravada Buddhism

Khin The (Burmese: ခင်သဲ, c. January 1814 – 3 May 1872), commonly known by her regnal title Thiri Maha Yadana Mingala Dewi (Burmese: သီရိမဟာရတနာမင်္ဂလာဒေဝီ; Pali: Sirimahāratanamaṅgaladevī), was the Queen of the Northern Palace of King Mindon Min during the Konbaung dynasty.^[1] Among several queen consorts, Khin The was the favored queen of King Mindon.

Khine The was born as Me Nyunt to Count Tha Phyu and his first wife Min Tha in Nyaunggyan village, Monywa. She had an older sister, Kyaktalone Thakhin, who was married to the minister of cavalry. Count Tha Phyu's second wife gave birth to two half-sisters of Khin The, Limban Mibaya and Thetpan Mibaya, who later became minor queens of King Mindon.

During her father's tenure as governor of Kanaung and Myanaung under Bagyidaw, Khin The entered the palace and began serving as a lady-in-waiting to Nanmadaw Me Nu at the age of 13. Khin The was favored by Prince Mindon's mother for her talent as a court poet. In 1834, she became a royal concubine of Prince Mindon. Khin The accompanied Prince Mindon and Prince Kanaung when they fled to Shwebo in rebellion against King Pagan.

Before the end of the rebellion, Prince Mindon pledged to Khin The that if he ascended the throne, he would make her his chief queen. When Mindon did become king, it was challenging to fulfill this promise because she lacked royal blood, which faced opposition from officials and the crown prince. Nevertheless, on March 26, 1853, she was crowned the Queen of the Northern Palace with the royal title Thiri Maha Yadana Mingala Dewi. It's worth noting that in King Mindon's life, two desires remained unfulfilled: the appointment of his teacher U Sandima as the Thathanabaing of Burma (the head of the Buddhist Sangha), and the ability to make Khin the chief queen.^[2]

King Mindon felt great pity for breaking his promise to Khin The and once said,

(In Burmese): "နန်းမတော်မှာလည်း သားရတနာမထွန်းကား၊ အခုများ မယ်သဲမှာသာ သားယောကျာ်းတစ်ဦးဦးထွန်းကားလာခဲ့ရင် နန်းလောင်းရာထား မြှောက်စားတော်မူနိုင်ငဲ့"

(Translation): "Nanmadaw (the Queen) did not have a son, but now if Me The were to bear a son, he would be the heir apparent."

— King Mondon

She did not bear any issue but she adopted Salin Supaya, daughter of her half-sister Limban Mibaya, and Kwutywa Princess, daughter of Tamabin Mibaya. King Mindin made his adoptive daughter Salin Supaya the crown princess. She died on 3 May 1872 with the flu and was buried in the Mandalay Palace stockade but it no longer exists today. According to records, during the reign of King Thibaw, Queen Supayalat ordered the relocation of Khin The's tomb to a local cemetery, claiming that she did not belong to the royal bloodline. This event was documented in the book "Mandalay and Other Cities of the Past in Burma" by Vincent Clarence Scott O'Connor.^[3]

• Konbaung dynasty
• List of Burmese consorts

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