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...their global good-will tour, Thailand's jazz-loving King Bhumibol and his charming Queen Sirikit arrived in Scandinavia, made an instant hit with the populace. A highlight of their visit was an escorted tour of the old theater in Sweden's summer palace in Drottningho'm. Their escort: Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf, whose eyes sparkled a reflection of Sirikit's exotic beauty. In Rome last week, Sirikit wowed local newsmen, who all played eulogistic variations on the theme of "the most beautiful Queen in the world." No slouch in winning popularity...
...breathe-as one historian noted appreciatively-"the fumes of privilege, of clubs, of Toryism." In keeping with the tradition that put a Savile Row uniform on Napoleon III when he mounted the throne of France, Hawes & Curtis recently finished a $900, gold-braided beauty for Thailand's King Bhumibol, as part of a 113-suit wardrobe. At Denman & Goddard's, cutters have been diligently remaking a drainpipe-trousered bohemian into the royal fashionplate that is Antony Armstrong-Jones...
...Bhumibol's father also king, and if so, does Thailand follow a rule of ultimogeniture? If not, what happened to the other 68 ? Were they all girls...
...Bhumibol's father was not king, his uncle was. When Uncle Prajadhipok abdicated, Bhumibol's bachelor elder brother succeeded; Bhumibol became king when his brother died in 1946. All clear...
Your altogether delightful and otherwise illuminating article about the King and Queen of Thailand leaves me in the dark about one fascinating particular-the Thai law of succession. You say that King Bhumibol's father "was the 69th child of King Chulalongkorn...