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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...
...Prince Sukhodaya, Siam's abdicated King Prajadhipok, collected the first payment on insurance which he took out several years ago against the loss of his throne. Weekly payments from French and British firms will give shrewd Sukhodaya about $40,000 a year for the rest of his life...
...Perhaps my King would like to tell you something," he said. The eager newshawks were shooed out upon the lawn, found Prince & Princess Sukhodaya, the former King and Queen, under an English...
...thing I want to ask you," said Prince Sukhodaya with the pent up emotion of one who has been King for ten long years, "in what you are writing about me, please do not talk about the 'brother of the moon' or the 'twenty-four umbrellas.' I am not the moon's brother. That is all bunk. There is a nine-tiered umbrella in our Siamese ritual, but I have no idea who invented the titles usually ascribed to me. . . . I like the English countryside. The Queen and I have done a lot of motoring...
...four days and four nights Prince & Princess Sukhodaya heard music, watched games. Pipe Major William Campbell, proud oldtime piper to Queen Victoria at Balmoral Castle, played them a tune, recalled how he had played for the Prince's father, King Chulalongkorn. Their Majesties took many a picture; their adopted son Prince Chirasakti had two still and two cinecameras slung over his shoulders. They bought small-sized kilts, bonnets and sporrans, thought they would wait until they returned to Bangkok before putting them on. They went to concerts of old Scottish music, heard two ballad-operas. Smoking was forbidden...