New Delhi: Hundreds of intimate pictures of the official mistress of Thailand’s King Maha Vajiralongkorn have allegedly been stolen from her personal phone and leaked to anti-monarchy activists as revenge porn, in an attempt to “sabotage” the Royal consort.

According to reports, some 1,400 images of the Thailand king’s royal consort – Sineenat Wongvajirapakdi, many of which are sexually explicit, have been leaked earlier this year to prominent critics of the Thai monarchy living abroad.

These private pictures of the royal consort were also sent to British commentator Andrew MacGregor Marshall and academic Pavin Chachavalpongpun who is living in Japan and faces criminal prosecution in Thailand for critiquing the monarchy.

The private pictures of the royal consort were taken between 2012 and 2014, the snaps include revealing shots of Koi topless and in skimpy nightwear. It is said that this is an extension of the bitter rivalry between the King’s younger mistress and his wife.

“The photographs are clearly from Koi’s personal phones,” Marshall tweeted on 22 November. “Most of the images are photographs she took of herself, and dozens of them are very explicit. It seems probable that she had taken these explicit photographs of herself to send to Vajiralongkorn.”

Marshall further wrote that the images were sent to him shortly before Ms. Wongvajirapakdi’s release from Lat Yao women’s prison in Bangkok to rejoin the king with all her royal titles and privileges restored.