A historic country compound with certain royal ties has hit the market. Located in the wooded English village of Biddenden, a former iron industry town, this quaint mansion boasts both opulence and ...

“Maybe half a million Siamese know who Joe Stalin is,” said a high official of the Siamese court. “Fewer can identify Harry Truman. But everybody, right out to the most remote borders of the nation, ...

ANNA AND THE KING OF SIAM—Margaret London—John Day ($3.75). When Anna Leonowens entered the service of the King of Siam, that progressive monarch had 9,000 women in his harem. They lived in a small ...

The first Swedish film by photographer Ernest Florman. Kung Oscar II welcomes King Chulalonkorn of Siam, now Thailand, at Logårdstrappan. King Chulalonkorn visited Sweden in connection with ...

A more than 600-year-old English country house that served as home to an abdicated king in the 1930s has come to the market for £5.5 million (US$7.1 million). Known as Vane Court, the medieval ...

Includes Thai text of Chulalongkorn's Phrarātchaniphon thamnīam rātchatrakūn nai Krung Sayām. siris_sil_229146 ...