Soma Norodom

Soma Serei Norodom
Princess of Cambodia
Princess Soma Norodom visiting patients aboard a US Navy hospital ship in Sihanoukville, 2012
King	Norodom Sihamoni
Born	(1969-10-29) 29 October 1969 (age 47) Phnom Penh, Cambodia
House	House of Norodom
Father	Vatvani Norodom
Mother	Sosony Norodom

Styles of Soma Serei Norodom
Reference style	Her Highness
Spoken style	Your Highness

Soma Serei Norodom (Khmer: សោម៉ា សិរី នរោត្តម; born October 29, 1969) is a newspaper columnist, philanthropist and princess of the Cambodian royal House of Norodom. Raised in the United States, she returned to Cambodia in 2010 and began writing columns for the Phnom Penh Post. Referring to herself as "the Royal Rebel", many of her columns have been critical of the Cambodian government or members of the royal family, causing the Cambodian government to express their annoyance at her work. Princess Soma has been active in charity work for various NGOs and founded her own not-for-profit organization, the Soma Norodom Foundation. Her official title is Neak Ang Mchah Ksatri (Khmer: អ្នកអង្គម្ចាស់ក្សត្រី), with the English language style of "Highness", elevated on May 21, 2011 from "her excellency, Brhat Varman".

Her father, His Excellency Prince Vatvani Norodom, a third cousin of both current king Norodom Sihamoni and former Prime Minister Prince Norodom Ranariddh, was a lieutenant-colonel in the Khmer Air Force during the Cambodian Civil War assigned as the commandant of Battambang Air Force Base. In 1971 he was promoted to full colonel and made Cambodian Representative to US Forces in Vietnam. Subsequently, he was stationed as the Military Liaison Officer to the USAF at Udorn in Thailand until the 1975 fall of Phnom Penh when he fled with his family to the United States. Upon his return to Cambodia in 1993, he was made major-general and then lieutenant-general and given the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Royal Cambodian Air Force, a post which he held until the 1997 Cambodian Coup which resulted in Hun Sen consolidating his power and expelling Ranariddh and his allies. Her father died in Phnom Penh in 2012.