Word: chulalongkorn
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...four days and four nights Prince & Princess Sukhodaya heard music, watched games. Pipe Major William Campbell, proud oldtime piper to Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle, played them a tune, recalled how he had played for the Prince's father, King Chulalongkorn. Their Majesties took many a picture; their adopted son Prince Chirasakti had two still and two cinecameras slung over his shoulders. They bought small-sized kilts, bonnets and sporrans, thought they would wait until they returned to Bangkok before putting them on. They went to concerts of old Scottish music, heard two ballad-operas. Smoking was forbidden...
...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...