Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-05
SIAMESE PRINCE. NCOCNITO.
GEORGETOWN STUDENT 3 YEARS
Identity of Brother of Queen
Closely Guarded From
Classmates.
Royal Family to Visit Capital
Next April With Suite
of Fifteen.
BY NELSON M. SHEPARD.

Coincident with reports that King
Prajadhipok of Siam, one of the few
remaining absolute monarchs of the
world, is preparing to visit the United
States next April and be received at
the White House, it was learned yes
terday that his brother-in-law, Prince
Nondiyaval Svasti, incognito for nearly
three years, has been student at
Georgetown University.
His real identity closely guarded from
friends and fellow-Students, this 81
year-old member of the royal Siamese
household, thoroughly Occidental in his
ways, has quietly pursued studies all
this time in the School of Foreign
Service in preparation for a career in
the diplomatic corps of his country. AS
in the case of the State Department and
the Siamese legation, which decline to
discuss any phase of the prospective
visit of the King and his Queen, officials
of Georgetown University have kept
silent about the presence of the young
royal student. The only admission they
would make was that a student by that
name had beer registered at the school
for his third consecutive year.
Royal T1mily Due Here In April.
While Official Washington Is unpre-
pared at this time to divulge plans for
the reception here of the King and
Queen, the third reigning monarchs
ever to come to this country, 1t was
made known in authoritative circles
that April "a has been fixed as the
tentative date Of their arrival in Wash
ington. Prince Svasti, father of the
Queen and her student brother, IS
understood to be accompanying them.
While King Prajadhipok, as other men,
bers Of royalty have done before, is sup
posed to remain 1ncognito on his visit,
he will travel with suite of about
Is persons.
washington has entertained royalty
on numerous occasions, such as the
visits in recent years Of Prince Gustav
of Sweden and the Prince of Wales, as
well as the presidents and presidents
elect of several republics, but on only
two previous occasions has q ruling
monarch come to this country. Those
times were on the occasions OF the
visits of King Albert Of Belgium, after
the World War, and Queen Marie OF
Rumania.
Excited No Curiosity.
Almost as little is known here Of
Prince Nondiyaval SvaSti, who is thus
called to distinguish him from his
monarchs who have occupied the throne
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since November, 1925.
Coming and going daily to his classes
at the School of Foreign Service, his
quiet demeanor and democratic spirit
have attracted little attention among the
student body and excited no curiosity.
With students from some 20 foreign
countries attending the school, includ-
ing several from Far Eastern countries,
the presence of the Siamese, known
generally to his fellows as just plain
Svasti, was the occasion of no special
comment. Even his name meant
nothing.
Prince Nondiyaval is one of a number
of Siamese youths who have been sent
to the United States to acquire a
Western education and bring back to
the Eastern kingdom the American way
of doing things which is becoming more
and more popular and universal in
Siam. While here during the past few
years he has found contentment and
satisfaction in relief from public at
tention which the concealment OF his
identity made possible. So carefully
has he guarded his secret himself that
his identity has been made known only
to a very few friends.
A pleasant, wholesome youth, not un-
like many American students, Prince