Buppha Devi finished her high school education at Lycée Preah Norodom in Phnom Penh.
As a young princess, her grandmother, Queen Sisowath Kossamak, chose her to become a dancer early in her life.
At the age of 15, she became the premiere dancer of the Royal Ballet of Cambodia. At the age of 18, she was granted the title of prima ballerina.
She then toured the world as the principal dancer of the Royal Ballet with
Queen Kossamak, performing in public. In the past the ballet had been performed only before royalty to commemorate their dynastic ancestors and to honour the gods.
Buppha Devi married in 1959 at the age of fifteen, and has five children:
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