Word: prajadhipok
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Princess Sukhodhaya of Siam, widow of the late King Prajadhipok and aunt of the late (murdered) King Ananda Mahidol, was in Manhattan on a visit, looked forward to some shopping just as soon as the mourning was finished. Special interests: ice cream and nylons...
Ananda had been a shy, studious boy who performed his royal duties with docility but without much interest. Most of his brief life had been lived abroad. His father (halfbrother of the late King Prajadhipok) had taken a medical degree at Harvard: Ananda had been born in Germany, educated in Switzerland. He became king under a regency in 1935 when Prajadhipok abdicated...
...when King Prajadhipok of Siam came to the U.S. for treatment of his cataract, Edgar Burchell was an expert in eye, ear, nose & throat bacteriology and pathology. It was he who determined that the little king's eye was free from dangerous bacteria and could safely be operated...
Killed in Service. Prince Chirasakti, 25, adopted son of the late Prajadhipok, ex-King of Siam; on duty with the R.A.F. air transport auxiliary. A cousin of the present King Ananda Mahidol of Thailand, he was married in London to Mani Rajah Noeprabandou, daughter of a onetime Siamese Minister at London. Much publicized in 1939 was the elaborate exorcism of devils from his five-week-old son, in rural England. A champagne party followed long wordless rites that included an anointing, attaching of cords to the baby's body, and removal of a lock of hair, which was wrapped...
Died. Tiny, dapper, cocoa-skinned Prajadhipok of Sukhodaya, 47, former King of Siam and last of the nation's absolute rulers; of heart disease; at his country estate in Surrey, England. Educated at Eton and the officers' school at Woolwich, he ascended the Siamese throne in 1925. For nearly ten years he ruled eleven and a half million subjects who knew him as "Brother of the Moon," "HalfBrother of the Sun," "Possessor of the Four-and-Twenty Umbrellas." Six years ago he abdicated his throne on the refusal of the Cabinet to accept his demands for constitutional reform...