[custom_adv] Thailand's royal family, compared to the constantly spotlighted British monarchy, is extremely secretive. The country has strict laws that forbid citizens and the Thai press from insulting and reporting on embarrassing details about the family. [custom_adv] King Maha Vajiralongkorn, officially known as King Rama X, was crowned in May 2019, almost three years after the death of the previous king, his father Bhumibol Adulyadej. [custom_adv] Thanks to restrictions to the Thai press, relatively little is known about Maha Vajiralongkorn. [custom_adv] What we do know, however, is that he was educated in the UK and Australia, is an enthusiastic cyclist, has been married four times, and is a trained pilot. [custom_adv] Scroll down to find out more about Thailand's secretive, bicycle-loving king. Though he wasn't immediately named Crown Prince, he was widely expected to be his father's successor. [custom_adv] His birth was seen as a great relief to the Thai royal family at the time, which had been anxiously awaiting a son. [custom_adv] He attended prep school at 13 before moving on to the prestigious Millfield boarding school, where he finished at 17. [custom_adv] He then attended Royal Military College, Duntroon, in Canberra, Australia. He graduated in 1976. [custom_adv] He struggled to keep up at school in England and Australia, blaming his upbringing in the Thai palace, the BBC reported. [custom_adv] Maha Vajiralongkorn "deemed it appropriate to allow a period of time for the people to pay their respects to the late King," Thailand's National Legislative Assembly said in an October 2016 announcement. [custom_adv] The wedding was a surprise because the palace had never acknowledged the king's romantic relationship with General Suthida Vajiralongkorn before. [custom_adv] Footage of the wedding showed Suthida kneeling and bowing to the king before sitting beside him to sign marriage documents inside the ornate Ampornsathan Throne Hall in Bangkok. [custom_adv] Footage from the ceremony also showed the king splashing water on Wongvajirapakdi's face at the ceremony. [custom_adv] His mother, Queen Sirikit, reportedly once described her son as "a little bit of a Don Juan" in the early 1980s. [custom_adv] She also suggested that her son preferred spending his weekends in the company of beautiful women over carrying out his formal royal duties, the BBC reported. [custom_adv] She also suggested that her son preferred spending his weekends in the company of beautiful women over carrying out his formal royal duties, the BBC reported. [custom_adv] She also suggested that her son preferred spending his weekends in the company of beautiful women over carrying out his formal royal duties, the BBC reported. [custom_adv] She also suggested that her son preferred spending his weekends in the company of beautiful women over carrying out his formal royal duties, the BBC reported. [custom_adv] She also suggested that her son preferred spending his weekends in the company of beautiful women over carrying out his formal royal duties, the BBC reported.