Word: sihanouk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years Norodom Sihanouk was King of Cambodia and a frolicsome young monarch was he. He played the sax and composed jazz, kept a stable of race horses and a troupe of dancing girls, produced and acted in his own movies, collected concubines and fast cars. But at the age of 29, Sihanouk discovered the great game of politics...
Last year Sihanouk abdicated the throne, became his own Premier and promulgated a brave pro-Western anti-Communist policy. But after a Tammany-style general election (which he won 100%), Sihanouk found the responsibilities of the premiership niggling, and appointed himself a kind of freewheeling plenipotentiary of foreign affairs...
...handsome young King of Cambodia himself sat rapt in the audience, 16-year-old Monique carried away all honors in a beauty contest sponsored by UNESCO. For his young (29) majesty, Samdach Preah Upayuva-reach Norodom Sihanouk, it was a plain case of love at first sight, despite the fact that he was already bulwarked against loneliness by four concubines and ten children. He promptly invited Monique for a spin in his cream-colored Lancia and composed a song for her. Monique responded by quitting school, to the scandalized horror of the French set. As far as they were concerned...
...time, Sihanouk resigned his kingship and became his country's militantly nationalistic Premier. To dignify the changeover, early last April he married shy young Princess Taveth Norleach. Monique seemed definitely out in the cold-but there is no law in Cambodia limiting the number of wives or concubines a prince may take. When Sihanouk left for a holiday on the Riviera a fortnight ago, Monique was his companion, and her passport was made out to Madame Norodom Sihanouk. Last week the Cambodian government revealed that Sihanouk had made Monique Izzi his wife No. 2 less than a week after...
Last week, at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base, De Gastyne was at work on his latest assignment: converting songs by ex-King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia into a symphonic rhapsody...