Generally speaking, the profession of the king or prince is a martial strategy, and he can rule the country in the future. Even now the kingdom is a constitutional monarchy and does not require kings and princes to participate in politics, but kings and princes still study humanities such as literature, history and law in college, and rarely study literature and sports. But King Sihamoni of Cambodia was an art major, not a literature and history major.
King Sihamoni was born on 14 May 1953 to the son of King Norodom Sihanouk and his mother queen Monilie. When King Norodom Sihanouk visited Tokyo, Japan, Queen Monilie gave birth to King Sihamoni at the Phnom Penh Palace in the capital of Cambodia, so The nickname of King Sihamoni was "Tokyo".
Of course, when King Sihamoni was born, Queen Monilie was not yet a queen, but a favorite concubine, and she was called Princess Monique at that time.
When King Sihamoni was 9 years old, he was sent to the Czech Republic to study dance. In 1975, Sihamoni graduated from the Prague Conservatory of Music and Art in the Czech Republic. He then went to Pyongyang to study filmmaking (1975-1976).
In 1976, King Sihamoni was tricked back into Cambodia by Pol Pot and placed under house arrest at the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh along with his parents and brother. In January 1979, the family escaped and took refuge in CHINA.
Later, King Sihamoni settled in Paris, France, and worked as a professor of classical dance and art at the Mozart Conservatory in Paris, where he lived a civilian life for more than 20 years, until his father, King Sihanouk, was successfully restored to his throne and served as a diplomat at the United Nations.
In 2004, King Sihamoni successfully ran for kingship and became the 97th King of Cambodia.
Why is King Sihamoni's specialty not literature and history, but dance? Generally speaking, the children of rich families do not take dance as a profession, but only a hobby. For example, King Sihamoni's half-brother Prince Naladipo specializes in Chinese language and literature, but Prince Naladipo is good at singing and dancing, and is particularly good at peacock dancing.
The Cambodian royal family has been able to sing and dance from ancient times to the present, and King Anton has made great contributions to Cambodian classical ballet. The royal family ballet actresses live in the royal palace, and king Moniwang has more than 60 concubines, of which more than 50 are royal ballet actresses, including Pol Pot's sister and cousin.
King Sihanouk's mother, Empress Goshaman, was particularly fond of dancing and managed the Royal Ballet, so Princess Pahua Devi, the granddaughter of Empress Goshaman herself, grew up as the head of the Royal Family Ballet and was good at Celestial Dance.
Therefore, Cambodian princes do not deliberately learn to dance, and there are many actors in the palace who teach them to dance. Why was King Sihamoni sent to a foreign country to learn dance at such a young age? Isn't that a matter of seeking the near and the far?
(Empress Goshaman loved dance so much, but she did not let her grandson, Prince Ranarid, who was personally raised, specialize in dance, and Prince Ranarit was sent to France to study law.) ）
Some speculate that this was Empress Goshaman's idea, and although King Sihamoni was the seventh son of King Sihanouk, he was the eldest son of his favorite concubine Monique. Fearing that Monique would blow the pillow wind on Sihanouk and make Prince Sihamoni the heir to the throne and affect the succession of her previous grandsons, Goshaman sent Prince Sihamoni to a foreign country to learn dance early in order to exclude him from the succession to the throne.
Of course this is just speculation, without any credentials. Abnormal things will of course cause everyone to be suspicious and speculate.
But the hit attention is yours, it is always yours, and whoever stops it can't stop it. The last king of Cambodia was king Sihamoni, and his brothers in front of him either received a box lunch in advance (killed by Pol Pot's orders) or did not become a tool, so the king was still the "Seven Brothers" King Sihamoni.
Although King Sihamoni specializes in dance, he is an avid reader and is very knowledgeable. His father, King Sihanouk, praised him as a "sage of Greek philosophy".
In the chapter "The Unsinkable King---- Sihanouk," rumors spread in the palace that someone wanted to depose the king and make the prince of the Sisowa clan the new king. King Sihamoni said, "No problem, I didn't want to be king, they asked me to be king." Give me two weeks to pack up my books and go back to my little apartment in Paris, France. ”
Although it was eventually confirmed that the rumor was only a rumor, this little story also shows that King Sihamoni had too many books and it took two weeks to pack them up.
King Sihamoni grew up learning dance in the Czech Republic, but became the king of Cambodia, which can only be said to be "destiny", destined to be king, no one can stop it, it does not matter what profession to learn.
Reference: The Sihanoukville Family
The Unsinkable King --- Sihanoukville