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| Thailand's Monarchy "We will reign with righteousness, for the benefit and happiness of the Siamese people." |
Those are the traditional words pronounced by each Thai king on the day of his accession to the throne. They are seemingly simple enough in content, yet those words reflect very well the essence of kingship that has developed through the long and varying history of the Thai nation. Thai history is marked by two outstanding features: Thailand, also known for a long period as Siam, has always managed to retain its independence while the nations all around fell prey at one time or another to colonialist powers. The second unique element of Thai history is that the country has always had a king on the throne as the nation's leader. It is, therefore, not surprising that the two features are often held as being intertwined, which makes the study of the function of the Thai throne all the more vital to a biographical sketch of any Thai king.
After the destruction of Ayutthaya in 1767 and the brief reign of King Taksin at Thonburi, the present Chakri Dynasty of Bangkok was established in 1782. It has carried on much of the tradition of Thai kings as handed down from Ayutthaya. Western influences, however, became more powerful in Southeast Asia during the fourth and fifth |
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The concepts of monarchy have their origins in
reigns of the dynasty, and Thai kings were wise enough to see that some adaptation to Western standards would become necessary in order that Thailand might escape conquest and survive as a sovereign nation. Princes and courtiers began to be sent to study in Europe where democracy was the rule, and in Thailand itself power began to be decentralized as well as divided among capable people outside the immediate circle of the King. In 1932, however, a group of people quickened the process by staging a bloodless revolution, which transformed the country into a constitutional monarchy in the European model. The then 

























