Word: chulalongkorn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...likewise introduced an extravagant offshoot of the Boy Scouts into Siam and assisted Queen Lakshmi in the creation of Siamese Girl Guides and the Royal Wild Tiger Corps. Since Rama's father, King Chulalongkorn, had left behind him 600 widows, 134 sons and 236 daughters, it was considered highly scandalous that Rama IV had no sons...
Siamese courtiers wagged their heads sadly. King Rama, they averred, ought never to have gone to Oxford and come home with that newfangled idea of abolishing his harem. The late King Chulalongkorn had had wives a plenty; and he had never had to issue such a decree as King Rama announced in the Siamese Official Gazette last week...