When Lon Nol staged a successful coup against Sihanouk in March 1970, his father Ranariddh was dismissed from his position in government, sent his family to France and fled into the jungle where he was a close associate of resistance leaders.

In 1973, Chakravuth was reunited with his father Ranariddh who sought asylum in France and studied law at the University of Provence, before also teaching there.

After graduating in computer science in Paris, Chakravuth set up his own business in Cambodia in 1994, where he started dating a French doctor at the Institut Pasteur.

[9] From 6 to 8 December 2021, Prince Chakravuth conducted the royal funeral of his father in front of Wat Botum, under the auspices of the Queen Mother Monique of Cambodia and the reigning king Sihamoni; as Khmer tradition prescribes, after the body of the deceased was cremated, Prince Chakravuth picked up from the ashes the gold coin which had been placed in the mouth of the deceased.

Within Cambodian society, leaders at all levels understand clearly that he is the only suitable candidate.Since the Cambodian National Rescue Party, the country’s main opposition party, was dissolved in 2017 by the Supreme Court of Cambodia, the FUNCINPEC of Chakravuth has a chance of becoming a major player once again in Khmer politics as Cambodia will hold the commune election in June 2022 and the general election in 2023.