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...take German minds off what the Chancellor was hatching every newsorgan in the Fatherland was ordered to play up as biggest news of the week a royal visit to President von Hindenburg by weak-eyed little King Prajadhipok of Siam and his equally short but amply curvesome Queen Rambui Barni. Oscar and the other venerable storks of East Prussia had not seen such pomp since Kaiser Wilhelm's day. Two private cars of the German State Railways sped Their Majesties out from Berlin, across the hated Polish Corridor (an emotional barrier not in the least inconveniencing the King...
Girding up their Siamese loins, yellow-robed priests bathed skimpy little King Prajadhipok and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni last week, made them ready in the sight of Buddha for a second visit to the U. S. where His Majesty's eyes will be further attended to (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932). Just as they were about to sail the Siamese Government was obliged to announce that "slight trouble has broken out in the Navy and it is not entirely on the side of the government...
Back to Bangkok from their seaside villa ventured King Prajadhipok and Queen Rambai Barni last week, thus signalizing that tranquillity had been restored after the bloody revolt led by princes of the Royal House (TIME, Oct. 23, et seq.). Duty bound to open the Siamese National Assembly last week, His Majesty consulted an astrologer as to what would be "the most propitious moment." On the astrologer's advice His Majesty opened at 11.02 a. m. sharp...
Though Siamese scrapped the divine rights of their smart little King Prajadhipok last year he managed to keep his throne, popped out of the revolution a constitutional monarch (TIME, July 4, 1932). Last week His Majesty and curvesome Queen Rambai Barni startled Bangkok. Despite bickering in the Siamese Army which led to the sudden resignation of four high officers. Their Majesties announced serenely that next January they will leave Siam on a leisurely second visit...
...Princeton freshman put down "The King of Siam." At once he was sent to see Dean Christian Gauss. But Dean Gauss knew that this small, coffee-colored freshman was right. He was H. R. H. Prince Prasob Mom Chow Sukhavasti, nephew of Siam's Queen Rambai Barni. A sturdy little fellow who had captained the boxing team at Chestnut Hill Academy near Philadelphia-and been handed an interscholastic prize by Princeton's President Hibben-he settled down to work at college, taking particular interest in economics. His presence caused Princeton little excitement. Only a few years before (Class...