New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1920-08-13
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directs attention 10 the fact that
I'M King Rama VI Is the first bachelor
,KLSsN king of siam in 100 years. And
~ ~ what is more, il is international
WI Nh diplomatic gossip HAT h" Is waiting
81. .lBE to Win an American woman to share
f>4H9hA} his fIrat.. Oue reason may be that
AfG4aT Y king Rama has seen American
~. " beauties in twenty stat"s OF III"
Union.
IiaHa ". known IL hi own people IL SemGei
Fhra I'aramlnalr Malsl Naiiravudl Muu.lilll kria,
Saaidei i'hta Rama 1lihntli II. is ant of The most
interesting maaareh, writes Frederick bean, NJ.
T., ia the New York Tribune. The first bachelor
that ever SAT upon the .Siame-e Throne. Ifa is said
to he. waiting for M American girl Ia share bis
throne. Tile kings grandfather, Maha MaHghlt,
used to say thai he lc~irrd-anI had-a member
"f every fstntly of note in his Kingdom in his
household" No outsider ever knew iHst how
puny wives hc did have. Ills san, Maha tlula-
%lnpGkorn. tlr father Of the present king. had three
wives on the. daA 'ctor, hr was tuidr crown
prince. GA that day h" married ninrty-sryrn
more 10 make ~, tn, complement OF one hundred,
s'ahcs vas the proI rr number of wives FOR The
crown pritre 10 have. When he diel-trn years
ago tr had hrtR"rn 1000 and 5000. When his
Sn, ,hJ then crown prince. returned from his long
stay ia Eurolr-hc had spent u third uf his life
10 England, Frame. G"ruany aud Russia, and had
madr frequent visits Ia Belgium. Italy and Spain,
Norway. Sweden and the Ncihrrland~-hi father
presented lara with n collection of SiameNe
beauties, saying:
my son. here are something over u hundred
~ the .btauiies Of the court I'm yuu IL start li"ht
housekeeping Oi,h, nr'i 80 these You may add rs
lsi sec it,"
i;ui the Young prince. much 10 the isrnmf
If his royal father. 'oid TIE monarch that he would
have none of this wholesale marrtnsr business,
and added hat when he WAS ready hc would marry
'nuc wifc, and She shall pc the queen OF my heart
as well as the queen of my realm" Ills father
took tle decision of his son very much to heart
and Sume have gone 81 fr as To say TINT his boys
stuhi orn adherence to his word helped 10 end his
royal fathers life. When his majesty Maha
yaiiravudh-knowu thereafter MS Rama Vi
came TO the throne. aS there WAS no queen and
"a heir. n crown prince. or, rs they say in Siam,
~, hriy ~prrSrmptivc, hand to be chosen. and the
&c. naturally fell Ia the hatr Prince rhitsanulrk,
who was n brother of the king by the same
nol her.
Sam is n polygamuus country. According Ia
S.iin"sr law n nan may have IS many wives as
o., can support. The households Of royalty ran
irto Amos: countless Numbers. old King Monc
Lat. re grandfather Of ne present monarch. used
Goo -at
81 Ike large families | have cighty-stv
ri 'Irrn
The In.rrt Eia. ha~ something Ike twenty
btffltr8ilrrs aud amy quantity If lulr>i,icrS. Ia
fri,- aaay with fha royal h1rcm his majesty
s'.ues - blow az one rf ~" oldest and most fiuta-
irptI cnstotns ot The country. And If he
,loo,,, to step ont of the bratrn track AMI marry
90 foreigner lie viii De CARRYING ON hat one more
o~ '~ unexpected r".ns't-. for whicl D." has been
urH~i rlrr ~frce ,r r.tti" to She throne.
Uaaa 81 f.. p remarkable wan ia many To-
~Ha4,'s II rho a-p of twelve be WIS sent Ia
England whore D." cited into ID" foreign >rhool
rrrfrla in less ~ 1n six uurthS. lie played font-
liH ar Rugby. laauiad to fence. ride and swim:
-.icr"' tu'r tonriai trHt~ "f golf and tennis, hiT'ri
l3I wrote love Nrit>. Later be Wcnt to llridcl-
a-- ,lrr. Hr cros. ed ~wur.i~ with the dlrtrirvilS
drank and sang hiS Ua9 into the hearts Of his
r ipv workers. I,-urriin= q" England %" entered
rh--St college. Gxraul. u1crc an graduation Dec
4a. .ro first prize nsay from -cycn Of The hrHin-
best 81 I;rifi-l,rrs. auI then went tu Paris. whcr"
20 wrote y uiav tla1 -f@~ produced M the Coincide
he ta4uruti to Germany and wrote mis-
.hrsf- for his fo-tu;S degree in German, and.
.-a- visiting every court IN Europe. returned
.-ma Us vav ~ america. where he stopped long
,,oueh TO uay lie president an extended visit and