The Devil’s Discus by R Kruger

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It was a liking unhelpful to a physique afflicted in later life by diabetes and other maladies. Though he died (in 1910) aged only fifty-seven, his reign lasted forty-two years, since he had succeeded Mongkut in his teens. During his minority he had a regent who bore the same name as a regent who murdered one of the Ayudhyan kings. e. royal relations) who headed departments of state ably, but being answerable only to a busy king became the nodes round which everyone else, and especially the increasing number of products of the educational programme, had to cluster for work, advancement and wealth.

The elder of the remaining two succeeded as King whose rule through male favourites caused such discontent. His death without an heir had no precedent in the Chakri dynasty and only one in all Siamese history, so that when his brother Prajadhipok succeeded – aged thirty-two and not long married to a healthy young woman – any repetition of this break with the tradition of fecundity seemed improbable. Yet Prajadhipok abdicated without issue. The line of succession therefore moved over to Chulalongkorn‟s sons by his junior queen.

To his friends, the Mentor urgently propounded a solution to Siam‟s problems. The monarchy must be limited to the British parliamentary system. And the economy could only be salved by allout planning, for Pridi was true to his generation in responding ardently to the generous hopes of socialism. Unregarded he might be by the world, even by that tiny segment 24 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ANANDA which comprised his own country, but his influence had a germinal force. It already disturbed the old guard.

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