on the same day. Princess Min Myat Shwe, a granddaughter of Hsinbyushin, whom he married in 1809, was crowned as his chief queen (Nanmadaw Mibaya Hkaungyi).

In 1841, King Tharrawaddy donated a 42-ton bell called the Maha Tissada Gandha Bell and 20 kg of goldplating to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon. His reign was rife with rumours of preparations for another war with the British