Norodom Ekcharin

Norodom Ekcharin returned to Phnom Penh in 2013, and reunited in 2014 with his family during their visit to Cambodia. Since then, he regularly join the family in ceremonial occasions at the Royal Palace during their visits to Cambodia.

But during the 1975-1979 turmoil after the Khmer Rouge captured Phnom Penh, Ekcharins relatives in Phnom Penh brought him to a hideout close to a refugee camp in Surin Province, on the Thai/Cambodian Border, from where he later reached Sweden. He grew up in Stockholm, having diffuse memories about his parentage, except that his father was a Prince, which he was instructed to never tell anyone.

Six months later, Yuvaneath, his wife and their three-year-old son Veakchearavouth went for a short time mission in Hong Kong, leaving Ekcharin in the care of his grandparents, with the plan that they soon would return, but after the coup by General Lon Nol (1970) they were not permitted to enter the country and Yuvaneath's family fled to Beijing, where they lived until 1980, when Yuvaneath moved his family to Connecticut in the United States, assuming that Ekcharin had died in Phnom Penh in 1976.

Prince Norodom Ekcharin (born April 15, 1969) is the second son of Prince Norodom Yuvaneath and Princess Tea Kim Yin. Prince Norodom Ekcharin was thought to have died as a child in 1976 during the Khmer Rouge regime, but he survived after being secretly brought to Thailand, and later grew up in Sweden and is since 2014 finally reunited with his family.

When Norodom Ekcharin was born in 1969 his parents Prince Norodom Yuvaneath, being the oldest son of the late king of Cambodia, Norodom Sihanouk, and his wife Tea Kim Yin was living at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh.