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{{Infobox royalty
| name        = Hteiktin Ma Lat
| title       = Princess Hteik Tin Ma Lat of Limbin
| house       = [[Konbaung Dynasty|Royal House of Konbaung]]
| image       = Linbim Hteiktin Ma Lat.jpg
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| birth_date  = {{Birth date|1894|10|13|df=y}}
| birth_place =  [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[British India]]
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| death_date  = {{Death year and age|1965|1894}}
| death_place = [[Rangoon]], [[British Burma]]
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| father = [[Limbin Mintha]]
| mother = Kin Me (Yenatha Khin Khin Gyi)
| spouse =  {{marriage|Herbert Bellamy|1878|1957|reason=died}}
| issue  = [[June Rose Bellamy|Yadana Nat-Mei]]
| religion    = [[Theravada Buddhism]]
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Princess Limbin '''Hteiktin Ma Lat''' ({{langx|my|ထိပ်တင်မလတ်}}; 13 October 1894 – 1965), also '''Tin Tin Ma Lat''', was a princess of Burma<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hopkins |first1=Harry |title=New World Arising: A Journey of Discovery Through the New Nations of South-east Asia |year=1952 |publisher=H. Hamilton |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0UI1AQAAIAAJ&q=limbin+ma+lat |language=en}}</ref> and one of the senior members of the [[Konbaung Dynasty|Royal House of Konbaung]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Collis |first1=Maurice |title=Trials in Burma |date=21 May 2015 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=978-0-571-31011-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VsPSCQAAQBAJ&q=limbin+ma+lat&pg=PT30 |language=en}}</ref>
==Biography==
[[File:Yadana Nat Mei.jpg|thumb|Hteiktin Ma Lat and her daughter Princess [[June Rose Bellamy|Yadana Nat Mei]]]]
Hteiktin Ma Lat was born on 13 October 1894 in [[Kolkata|Calcutta]], [[British India]]. She was the second daughter of Limbin Mintha and his consort Kin Me (Yenatha Khin Khin Gyi), the princess of Limbin. She was the great-granddaughter of King [[Tharrawaddy Min|Tharrawaddy]] and granddaughter of Prince [[Kanaung Mintha|Kanaung]]. She studied at Girl's High School in [[Allahabad]], India; she was well-educated and spoke English fluently.<ref>{{cite book |title=The River of Lost Footsteps |isbn = 9780571266067|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pKq8fXbh8R8C&q=Princess++Ma+Lat+of+Limbin&pg=PT135|last1 = Myint-u|first1 = Thant|date = 3 February 2011}}</ref>
[[Maurice Collis]], a colonial judge and author, wrote in his 1938 book ''[[Trials in Burma]]'' of receiving a call from Ma Lat in 1928: "She sat on the sofa, a beautiful woman, in a blue silk skirt and a jacket of white lawn, her complexion corn-coloured, her eyes large and brilliant, and with exquisite hands." [[Wilhelm, German Crown Prince|Crown Prince Wilhelm]], after meeting her at the Allahabad Club, described her as the most "striking woman" he had met during his Far Eastern tour.<ref name="the princess">{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VsPSCQAAQBAJ&q=princess+ma+lat&pg=PT31 |title=Trials in Burma Google Books|publisher=Maurice Collis |date= 21 May 2015|isbn=9780571310111}}</ref>
==Queen consort designate of Sikkim==
Prince [[Sidkeong Tulku Namgyal]], son of the King of [[Sikkim]], and Ma Lat began a regular correspondence. When Prince Limbin and his family returned to Burma (to live in Rangoon), Sidkeong visited them there in 1912. By then he and the princess had agreed to marry, the British having secured Limbin's approval. The wedding was initially set for 1913 but then delayed because of Sidkeong's father's deteriorating health. In February 1914 the old king died, Sidkeong became king, and his wedding to Ma Lat was set for 10 February 1915. The two exchanged many letters expressing their love for one another and their glad anticipation of a life together.{{fact|date=December 2020}}
In December 1914, Sidkeong was found dead in his bedroom, apparently of heart failure, aged 35, in what the British described as "mysterious circumstances".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarchives/2017/01/sikkim.html|title=A Royal Proposal of Marriage|work=Endangered archives blog|date=20 January 2017|access-date=22 December 2017|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=When a Burmese princess almost became the Queen of Sikkim |url=https://www.lostfootsteps.org/en/history/when-a-burmese-princess-almost-became-the-queen-of-sikkim |website=www.lostfootsteps.org |language=en}}</ref>
==Later life==
On 19 October 1921, Ma Lat married Herbert Bellamy, a [[horse breeder]] and bookmaker of [[Bombay]], [[Calcutta]], [[Batavia, Dutch East Indies|Batavia]] and [[Singapore]]. He was also a manager at [[Maymyo]] [[Horse racing|Racecourse]] and an orchid collector. She gave birth to their only daughter, [[June Rose Bellamy|Yadana Nat-Mei]], in 1932.<ref>{{cite news |title=Myanmar's Constitutional Collision Course |url=https://www.irrawaddy.com/election/opinion/burmas-constitutional-collision-course |work=[[The Irrawaddy]] |date=1 December 2015}}</ref>
==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:Princess Hteiktin Ma Lat.jpg|Young Hteiktin Ma Lat
File:Limbin Family.jpg|Hteiktin Ma Gyi, [[June Rose Bellamy|Yadana Nat-Mei]] and Hteiktin Ma Lat
File:Hteiktin Ma Lat and Her husband Herbert Bellamy.jpg|Hteiktin Ma Lat with her husband
File:Hteiktin Ma Lat and her child Yadana Nat-Mei.jpg|Hteiktin Ma Lat and her child Yadana Nat-Mei
File:Princess Ma Lat and her daughter.jpg|Princess Ma Lat and her daughter
</gallery>
==References==
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==External links ==
*[http://blogs.bl.uk/endangeredarchives/2017/01/sikkim.html The British Library Board : A Royal Proposal of Marriage]
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