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According to his pedigree, the fellow is Archduke of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, Dalmatia, Croatia, Galicia and Illyria, King of Jerusalem, Duke of Cracow, Lothringen, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Silesia, Modena and Parma. But Otto von Habsburg, 53, son of the last Austro-Hungarian monarch (Karl I), has long since given up building castles in the air. Several times he has renounced his pretensions to the nonexistent thrones, though never with enough conviction to satisfy the Austrian government, which refused him entry into his homeland. Now the government has relented. He may come back from Bavarian exile any time...
...when kings have gone out of style and the craft of kingship is all but forgotten, it is the good fortune of Thailand-and of the free world-that the present occupant of the nine-tiered umbrella throne, ninth monarch of the 184-year-old Chakri dynasty, not only takes the business of being a king seriously but has taken it upon himself to mold his emerging nation's character. In the musical five-tone Thai tongue, his full name rings like the roll of monsoon thunder...
...Mekong: His Majesty the Supreme Divine Lord, Great Strength of the Land, Incomparable Might, Greatest in the Realm, Lord Rama, Holder of the Kingdom, Chief of the Sovereign People, Sovereign of Siam, Supreme Protector and Monarch...
...Jazz Hot. The great-grandson of Anna's King of Siam, King Bhumibol is the world's first monarch to be born in the U.S.: in Cambridge, Mass., on Dec. 5, 1927, where his father, Prince Mahidol, was studying at Harvard. Mahidol died two years later, and Bhumibol, with his older brother Ananda and his sister, were taken back to Bangkok by his mother. After the 1932 coup, she moved them from the uncertainty of the capital to Switzerland, and there Bhumibol grew up in a modest villa in Lausanne, chauffeuring off each day to the Ecole Nouvelle...
...Chakri Day last month, celebrating the founding of his dynasty, Bhumibol set some sort of ceremonial record. First he was presented with a new car for state functions, a yellow Mercedes 600 limousine. As the day progressed, the monarch presented graduation swords to 68 police officers, unveiled a new statue of King Vajiravudh, who was Rama VI, handed diplomas to 868 graduates of two universities. Then, because it was also the anniversary of Bhumibol's first musical composition, some 1,400 Thai musicians put on an all-night concert of his works. The King stayed until 2 a.m., joining...