Word: mongkut
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...Landon's 1944 best-selling biography. Anna (Irene Dunne) is a purposeful widow, handsome in her crinolines, who arrives in Siam clutching her young son by the hand. Having firmly decided against marrying again, she is taking a job as schoolmarm in the gaudy, uncivilized court of King Mongkut (Rex Harrison). The King's domestic arrangements are already pretty well set, what with his hundreds of wives and concubines and an estimated 67 children. There is never a hint of romance between Anna and her difficult new boss. But their relationship is complex, mature, always threatening to explode...
...small city adjoining his palace. In the center was a garden and artificial lake, where the princesses bathed and picked water lilies. There was a theater, a gymnasium, a temple where Anna Leonowens taught English. There were blacksmith shops, slave quarters, barracks for the amazon guards. King Mongkut and a few priests were the only men allowed inside its high stone walls...
Died. Prince Svasti, 70, onetime Siamese Minister of Justice, later Lord Chief Justice, son of the late King Mongkut, brother of the late King Chulalongkorn, father-in-law of ex-King Prajadhipok; in Penang, Straits Settlements...