Word: sirikit
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Married. King Phumiphon of Siam, 22, Boston-born, saxophone-tootling King of Siam; and Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, 17, his distant royal cousin; in Bangkok (see PEOPLE...
Protocol experts in the Siamese government wondered whether Phumiphon Adundet should sign the marriage register as "government official" or "King" when he weds Princess Sirikit. Finally they worked out a compromise: Phumiphon will be described as "ruler of the country...
...drums to the horns to the piano. He composed dance tunes, both Western and Siamese style. Many mammas of the Siamese nobility got the idea that the climate of Lausanne would be good for their daughters. Quite a "court" developed around Phumiphon. Winner of the tournament was the Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara, who also likes music...
...Much of the Stars." Late this month, after attending to the cremation of his brother, Phumiphon will marry Sirikit on a day set by astrologers. No one in Bangkok makes a move without consulting an astrologer. In a recent speech opening the Bangkok branch of the Bank of America, U.S. Ambassador Edwin L. Stanton found it diplomatic to mention that the astrologers had found the date propitious...
Last week gangling, spectacled Phumiphon was on the Red Sea in the steamship Selandia, with his pretty fiancée, 17-year-old Siamese Princess Sirikit Kitiyakara at his side. In Bangkok's downtown dance halls, where Siam's hepcats curve their fingers backward and dance the rumwong, the hit of the week was a song composed by the royal jitterbug Phumiphon himself...