The royal motorcade carrying Thailand's Queen Suthida and Prince Dipangkorn drives past a group of anti-government demonstrators in front of Government House, on the 47th anniversary of the 1973 student uprising, in Bangkok, Thailand Oct 14, 2020. - Reuters
BANGKOK, Oct 23 (Reuters): A defining moment in Thailand's growing protest movement started with the unannounced arrival of a champagne-coloured Rolls Royce stretch limousine on a Bangkok street.
When Queen Suthida's motorcade slowed as it encountered a few dozen protesters jeering outside Bangkok's Government House on Oc. 14, royalists denounced it as unforgivable harassment in a kingdom whose constitution demands reverence for the monarchy.
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