KING OF SIAM
HOLDS THRONE
FOR YANK GIRL
BANGKOK, Aug. 27.—The first
bachelor that ever sat upon the
throne, King Rama VI, is said to be
waiting for an American girl to share
his throne.
The king’s grandfather, Maha Mong
kut, used to say that he desired—and
had—a member of every family of
note in his kingdom in his “house
hold.” No outsider ever knew just
how many wives he did have. His
son, Maha Chulalongkorn, the father
of the present king, had three wives
on the day before he was made crown
prince. On that day he married 97
xMe to make up the complement of
100, which was a proper number of
wives for the crown price to have.
When he died—10 years ago—he had
between 7000 and 8000. When his son,
the then crown prince, returned from
his long stay in Europe—he had spent
a third of his life in England, France,
Germany and Russia, and had made
frequent visits to Belgium, Italy and
Spain, Norway, Sweden and The Neth
erlands—his father presented him
Avith a collection of Siamese beauties
“My son, here are something over a
hundred of the beauties of the court
* for you to start light housekeeping
with and to these you may add as
you see fit.”
But the young prince, much to the
discomfort of his royal father, told
the monarch that he would have none
of this wholesale marriage business,
and added that when he was ready he
would marry “one wife, and she shall
fee the queen of my heart as well as
the queen of my realm.” His father
took the decision of his son very much
to heart and some have gone so far as
to say that his boy’s stubborn adhe
rence to his word helped to end his
royal father’s life.
When his majesty Maha Vajiravudh
■-*. —know thereafter as Rama VI—
came to the throne, as there was no
queen and no heir a crown prince, or,
as they say in Siam, an heir presump
tive, had to be chosen, and the lot
naturally fell to the late Prince Phit
sanulok, who was a brother of the
king by the same mother. And there
Is another curious phase of Siamese
royalty law.
Many years ago a Siamese monarch
found himself among a people with
out a women of high enough rank for
him to make his queen. So he mar
ried his own sister. Since that time
the custom has prevailed that the
ruling monarch must marry at leasi
one of his half sisters, for the heir
must be possessed of royal blood on
feoth sides. The queen mother, who,
■was cremated in May, was the half
sister of his majesty, Maha Chula
longkorn.
WThen the young king overthrew all
precedent and declared that he would
not marry any of his half-sisters—
that he would not tolerate the royal
harem—and that rather than this he
would remain single, it was the queen
mother who stood bv him and who as
sisted him in bringing out the “worn
en of the court” and compelled them
to be recognized as a part of the new
scheme of things. At his majesty’s
coronation ceremonies the young
women of the court—the king’s hali
sisters and others who wrould natur
ally have become members of his
household—wrere, for the first time
in Siamese history, seen at the royal
hall in the theaters, at dinners and
other royal public functions. It was
•the young king w'ho decreed the new
order, but it was the faithful queer
mother who made the new order a
* practical factor in the life of the Sim
ese court.
Siaf is a polygamous country. Ac
cording to Siamese law' a man maj
have as many wives as he can sup
port. The households of royalty rar
into almost countless numbers. Ole
King Mongkut, the grandfather of the
present monarch, used to say:
“I like large families. I have 8(
children.”
The present king has something
like 20 half brothers and any quan
tity of half sisters. In doing awaj
with the royal harem his majestj
struck a blow at one of the oldest anc
most fundamental customs of the coun
try. And if he chooses to step out o1
the beaten track and marry a foreign
er he will be carrying out one more o'
his unexpected reforms, for which he
has been noted ever since he came tc
^ the throne.
Rama VI is a remarkable man lr
many respects. At the age of 12 he
was sent to England, where he fitted
into the foreign school regime in Vk
than six months. He played football
at Rugby, learned to fence, ride and
swim; entered into tournaments of
golf and tennis, flirted and wrote love
lyrics. Later he went to Heidelberg,
where he crossed swords with the
daredevils and drank and sang his
way into the hearts of his fellow
workers. Returning to England he
entered Christ college, Oxford, where
on graduation he took the first prize
away from seven of the brainiest of
Britishers and then went to Paris,
where he wrote a play that was pro
duced at the Comedie Francaise; he
returned to Germany and wrote his
thesis for his doctor’s degree in Ger
man and, after visiting every court
in Europe, returned home by way of
America, where he stopped long
enough to pay the president an ex
tended visit and “looked over” 20 of
of the states of the union.
He is the only eastern monarch
with a western education—the most
democratic despot in the world. For
Siam is an absolute monarchy; pos
sibly the most absolute monarchy in
existence today. Rama VI holds in
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property and possessions of his 9,000,
000 subjects, but their very lives. A
few years ago, when China was in the
throes of not one but several revo
lutions and had declared two “re
publics,” the spirit of unrest started
to trickle down into little Siam, but
stopped at the border. Siam is called
the kingdom of “Muang Thai” (“the
people of the free”), and nothing
could enter that paradise to disturb
that “freedom.” The country is so
prosperous, the taxes are so low, the
advantages are so numerous that
those living in Cochin-China on the
east and in Murma on the west are
clamoring to get over the Siamese
fence to become partakers of the ad
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