SIAM'S NEW RULER.
crown prince proclaimed ' '.:'.; king. '■'. ;>■;,.-. By Tflleßraph—Press Association-CopyriEht.'l (Rec. October, 24, 9.40 p.m.) V .London,' October 24. " It is announced that the cause of King Chuklongkorn's death' was uraemia. The Crown Prince .'dhowfa Maha Vajiravudh, has been.'proclaimed King. The new King of Siam is 29 years of age. •; The' Siamese Crown is not directly inherited, but each .ruler nominates .his oWii successor;, the - newviEionarch having been duly proclaimed. Crown Prince, in 1895. Like many others of King Chulalongkorn's sons and nephews,: he : was educated in England, and' was initiated' into English life in-the house, of Mr. Basil Thomson, son of the late. Archbishop of, York: Then, he was tran* ferred 1 to Sandhurst, and put under the oharge of Colonel Hume; for many yeais altaohed to Lord Roberts's staff in 'India, and afterwards in South Africa, and, having served in an- English Infantry Regiment, the Crown Prince, finished his career in England by a year at Oxford. Other sons of. the King have been at Harrow aid at Oxford or Cambridge, and, both for character and capacity, have left records of which any English parents might well be proud.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 5
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191SIAM'S NEW RULER. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 956, 25 October 1910, Page 5
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