1955: Three for the death of King Ananda of Thailand

ExecutedToday.com ^ | February 17, 2018

[CheshireTheCat]

On this date in 1955, Thai royal secretary Chaliew Pathumros and royal pages Butr Patamasarin and Chit Singhaseni were shot as regicides. (Many other transliterations of these names, and the other Thai names in this post, are possible.) Few now believe that it was they who killed the young King of Thailand, Ananda Mahidol … but who really did it?

Inheriting the throne of Siam — it became Thailand in 1939* — as a nine-year-old expatriate student in Switzerland, the wispy King Ananda would be described by Lord Mountbatten as “a frightened, short-sighted boy … a pathetic and lonely figure.” Some questioned whether he wanted to be king; others, whether monarchy would or should survive in Thailand at all. (Absolute monarchy had given way to constitutional monarchy in 1932.) Ananda’s own deceased father, a prince who had gone to Harvard, studied medicine, and married a commoner, seemed to model a different direction altogether, and Ananda’s legally questionable selection in 1935 might have been designed intentionally to enthrone a figure with no capacity for governance.......

[Rembrandt]

I don’t know the name of the current President of Thailand but I’ve read that it is 155 letters in length and even he can’t spell it.

[Rembrandt]

“questionable selection in 1935 might have been designed intentionally to enthrone a figure with no capacity for governance.......”

Sounds remarkably similar to biden.

[Steven Scharf]

I think you mean the king of Thailand as the president as an unusually short name for a Thailander: Srettha Thavisin.

The King on the other hand official name is: Maha Vajiralongkorn Phra Vajira Klao Chao Yu Hua. It clocks in at 41 characters.

The city of Bangcock on the other hand does boast a very long offical name Roman script: Krungthepmahanakhon Amonrattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilokphop Noppharatratchathaniburirom Udomratchaniwetmahasathan Amonphimanawatansathit Sakkathattiyawitsanukamprasit

Thai script: กรุงเทพมหานคร อมรรัตนโกสินทร์ มหินทรายุธยา มหาดิลกภพ นพรัตนราชธานีบูรีรมย์ อุดมราชนิเวศน์มหาสถาน อมรพิมานอวตารสถิต สักกะทัตติยวิษณุกรรมประสิทธิ์

And translates as City of angels, great city of immortals, magnificent city of the nine gems, seat of the king, city of royal palaces, home of gods incarnate, erected by Vishvakarman at Indra’s behest.

It does not even have the word Bangkok in it.