H.R.H. Princess Myat Phaya was born at Madras on 7th March 1886. She was a daughter of the last ruling king of Burma, King Thibaw

Thibaw Min

Thibaw Min was the last king of the Konbaung dynasty of Burma . His reign ended when Burma was defeated by the forces of the British Empire in the Third Anglo-Burmese War, on 29 November 1885, prior to its official annexation on 1 January 1886....

. She succeeded her older sister Myat Paya Lat

Myat Paya Lat

H.R.H. Princess Myat Paya Lat was the most senior member of the Burmese Royal Household after the death of her father, King Thibaw while in exile in 1916...

 as head of the royal household in 1956. She married (first) in 1922 (divorced 1929) H.H. Prince (Hteik Tin) Kodaw Gyi Naing (died at Rangoon, 22nd October 1954 or 11th November 1954), a grandson of H.R.H. Sri Pawara Maha Suriya Dharmaraja Maha Uparaja Anaudrapa Ainshe Min, Mindat Min. She married (second) U Mya U (died during the Japanese occupation), a lawyer. She died from cancer at Maymyo, 21st July 1962.