A SECOND or subordinate kingship is an anomalous device or provision of sovereignty peculiar to Siam, Cambodia, and Laos. Inferior in station to the supreme king only, and apparently deriving from the ...

Every night at the London Palladium, the musical “The King & I” tells the story of Anna Leonowens, the British governess who became teacher to the children of the King of Siam in the mid-19th Century.

OF Somdetch Phra Paramendr Maha Mongkut, late supreme king of Siam, it may safely be said (for all his capricious provocations of temper and his snappish greed of power) that he was, in the best sense ...