Word: chulalongkorn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though Johnson had been briefed on the myriad restrictions surrounding the King, he kept forgetting himself. Several times he strode ahead of Bhumibol while courtiers paled and sucked in their breath. At Chulalongkorn University, where Johnson, wearing a translucent academic gown trimmed with orange and yellow, received a silver-framed honorary Doctor of Political Science degree, the President crossed his legs with one foot pointed at the King; Thai officials felt faint, for the foot is considered the lowliest part of the body...
...royal family, who in revenge for The King and I wrote Lords of Life, an insider's report of Siamese royalty, leaving little doubt that Yul Brynner's resemblance to any King of Siam ended with his shaven head, and incidentally debunking the belief that King Chulalongkorn had 3,000 wives and 370 children (it was 92 wives and 77 children); of cancer; in Tredethy, Cornwall...
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...
...King of Siam, as any heart-wrung fan of The King and I knows, is likely to be a fellow whose love for Thailand is matched by a thirst for the best of the West. The reigning King, grandson of Anna's princely Chulalongkorn, comes by it naturally: he was born in Cambridge, Mass. 32 years ago while his father was studying medicine at Harvard, and slakes his thirst with a special passion for clarinet and sax. Last week King Bhumibol Adulyadej (pronounced Poom-i-pon A-dool-ya-date), who looks half his age, and his almond-eyed...
...King's romance with jazz is pleasantly tolerated by Queen Sirikit. For one thing, Bhumibol is monogamous, unlike most of his celebrated ancestors (his father was the 69th child of King Chulalongkorn). "He doesn't need any more wives," Sirikit once said with a smile. "For him, his orchestra is one big concubine...