Thailand has a legendary emperor who was the sixth monarch of the Chokri dynasty and the country's first king to study abroad.
Educated in the West, he carried out the famous Chakri reforms in Thailand, and this person was Vajilawu, who ascended the throne at the age of 30 and was called Rama VI.
It is worth mentioning that before the age of 40, Rama VI was almost not close to women, and there was a serious mother-love plot.
When his mother died, he seemed to have opened Pandora's box, married four or five women in just five years, and worked hard to give birth to a prince, but finally died with great disappointment. Today, let's talk about the story of this king.
His father was the first emperor of Thailand, and his brother died young, and the second prince was made the crown prince
King Rama VI's father, Chulalongkorn, holds a high position in the hearts of the Thai people and is known as Thailand's "Emperor of the Ages", and his merits are comparable to that of Emperor Kangxi on the mainland.
Both of them have made great contributions to the stability of their own country's social stability, and Kangxi's pacification of the rebellion of the three feudatories, the expedition to Mobei, the confrontation against Tsarist Russia, and the reunification of Taiwan can be said to be a thousand years old. Chulalongkorn fought against the colonizers to prevent Thailand from becoming a colony of Western countries.
He also attached great importance to education and was a pioneer in Thailand to open his eyes to the world, reforming the Thai education system and establishing Chulalongkorn University in 1899. To this day, the university remains in the first tier of higher education institutions in Thailand, also known as the "Pillar of the Kingdom".
In addition to the establishment of these two emperors, the harem life is also very exciting, the Kangxi Emperor has 65 beauties in the harem, and Zhulalonggong has more than that, with 154 concubines and 97 children in his life, including 33 boys.
There is also a record of Chulalongkorn and his children in the "Qing History Manuscript", mentioning the second prince of Thailand at that time, Mahuti Lute. The modern translation of this prince is named Waqilawu, and there is also a Chinese name Zheng Bao, and this person is later Rama VI.
Wasirawu was born in 1880 to Showapa Pongsi, the historical Queen of Thailand. Vaqilawu was the 29th child and second son of Chulalongkorn, and after the death of his brother, he naturally became the eldest son, and was later made the crown prince.
The royal name "Rama" was also used after the accession of Vaqilavu, who died in 1910 and ascended the throne after the death of Chulalongkorn, before whom the Thai emperor followed the example of the feudal dynasty of the mainland, and each generation of emperors of the Bangkok dynasty had their own nickname.
At the enthronement ceremony, Wajulawu announced the abolition of the nickname, following the Western royal Xi's customary use of the royal name, and determined that Rama, the title from the ancient Thai poem "Rama Poem", was the sixth emperor of the Bangkok Dynasty, and was therefore called Rama VI.
Leading Thailand out of the haze of World War I, the mother-lover plot is serious and there is no harem
Rama VI was a controversial emperor who was a good emperor to the Thai people and shared many similarities with Kangxi's son, Emperor Yongzheng.
Both reigned for a short period of time, with Yongzheng reigning for 13 years and King Rama VI reigning for only 15 years, but these short years have had a profound impact on Thailand.
He introduced a compulsory education system to make education accessible to ordinary people in Thailand, greatly improving the overall quality of the population.
King Rama VI was also a visionary emperor, knowing that the development of a country is inseparable from infrastructure, and vigorously built power plants, focusing on urban planning and improving facilities for the convenience of the people.
King Rama VI repealed the old law, allowed the Thai people to have their own surnames, and turned the royal garden into an amusement park for the Thai people to enjoy.
During his reign, there was a major event in Thailand, that is, the First World War, and after analyzing the world situation, he chose to side with the Entente, and finally Thailand became the victor of the First World War.
The reason why this king is controversial is that his personal private life, compared to his father Chulalongkorn has many concubines, Rama VI has always been single at the beginning of his reign, and the reason for being single is shocking, it turns out that this emperor has a mother-love plot.
Speaking of which, we have to mention Rama VI's mother, Queen Liren, whom Chulalongkorn married when she was in her 50s, and despite the many concubines in the harem, Queen Liren was the most favored.
looks very beautiful, which is completely in line with the mainstream aesthetics of Thailand, with big eyes and a round nose, which is delicate and delicate, and will definitely not lose to any Thai entertainment star until now.
How much did Chulalongkorn love this concubine? Immediately after the death of the eldest son, he made their son Vaqilawu the crown prince.
The old emperor attached great importance to training to become an heir, and when Vajilawu was made the crown prince, he was not yet an adult, so Chulalongkorn took him to visit other countries to attend diplomatic activities, brushing his face on the one hand, and increasing his son's knowledge on the other.
When he ascended the throne at the age of 30, he announced the abolition of polygamy, and he himself was single for the first ten years of his succession to the throne, feeling that women in the world were inferior to his mother.
At first, Queen Liren was also very anxious, it was not a matter for her son to be single all the time, and even the ministers couldn't sit still.
Seeing that the king will not even have a daughter-in-law and no heir when he is not confused, officials often jointly write letters asking the king to establish a queen and open up branches for the Thai royal family.
Later, I learned the truth that Rama VI had a serious mother-love plot, which made Queen Liren depressed every day, resulting in her death before the age of 40.
After the death of his mother, King Rama VI was very sad, until a woman appeared, and he changed his previous practice of not being close to women to become the king of the sea.
The king only married his wife at the age of 40, and saw that one loved the other and became the king of the sea
Rama VI thought that he would be lonely for the rest of his life, but fate could not stop him. One day he stumbled upon a girl named Wanlapaveit, whose father was Prince Volavanna, and the princess was a cousin to King Rama VI.
In 1907, Wanlapawit entered a school founded by the Queen Mother of Thailand, and soon the little princess became a popular figure in the school, and the princes and nobles who studied in the school also gave her the nickname "White Princess".
The appearance of the girl made Rama VI, who was immersed in the grief of losing his mother, like a desert traveler who saw an oasis, and soon proposed to the other party.
On November 9, 1920, King Rama VI issued an edict announcing his engagement to his cousin and his recent wedding, and also canonized her as Countess of Woraganya.
thought that the wedding was a foregone conclusion, and Princess Wanapaveit only needed to wait at home to marry into the royal palace and become the queen of Thailand, but in March of the following year, King Rama VI suddenly announced the cancellation of the wedding.
The king explained to the outside world that after half a year of getting along, he found that he was not compatible with the other party's personality, and specially issued a decree to withdraw the title of Countess of Woraganya.
Divorced inexplicably, Willa Pavit lived under great pressure, and the poor princess lived to die in her fifties, never married.
A month after the wedding was dissolved, the outside world found out the real reason, and it turned out that the king of Thailand had taken a fancy to a woman named Razami Rawan.
The woman was the younger sister of Vanlapatvi, and in September 1921 King Rama VI had a lavish wedding to Princess Razemirawan, who was made a concubine.
At first, the married life of the two was sweet, but in less than a year, the true nature of King Rama VI was suddenly revealed, and Razemirawan was never pregnant, and he broke his promised monogamy and filled the harem one after another.
Neglected by King Rama VI, Rashamirawan often used writing to vent her frustration, exposing the unknown side of the King of Thailand and satirizing it, which made Rama VI so angry that he ordered him to be imprisoned in the cold palace.
It was not until Rama VII succeeded to the throne that Rasemiravan was released, and in order to make up for her suffering in the cold palace, Rama VII rewarded her with many jewels and money.
Later, the former concubine moved out of the Thai palace and lived in a small villa, where she passed the time by reading and writing.
In 1961, Rasemira dismissed two gardeners who were not serious about their work, and the two took advantage of the dark moon and high wind to sneak into the villa, hit her on the head with a stick and snatched valuable jewelry, and the body was found three days later.
The third woman who fell in love with Rama VI was also related to the two princesses above, the woman was called Sudarit Suda, and she was best friends with Wanlapawit and Razamirawan.
At Princess Wanapaveit's engagement ceremony, King Rama VI fell in love with the maid at first sight, and two months after marrying Princess Ramitsera Bowl, Sudarit Sudarit Suda was admitted to the palace by the King of Thailand and made him a concubine.
King Rama VI had not been married for the first ten years of his reign, and the ministers were worried about him, and now it has been more than a year to change women like a thing, and many people have begun to complain about it.
Rama VI didn't care, and only three months after Sudarit Sudarit was made a concubine, he remarried.
He also named a woman named Indra Sardis as the princess of the king of Paintalani, and she was the sister of Sudarit Suda, and it can be seen that the prince has always been between sisters.
Indra Sardis was the most favored of the princes, who was once pregnant with a child but was unable to keep it due to poor health.
In order to make the concubine pregnant smoothly, in 1923, King Rama VI specially built a palace in a place called Hua Hin in Thailand to pray for blessings, and now people who travel to Thailand can still see this palace called "Love and Hope".
In 1924, King Rama VI met Suvadana while watching a theatrical performance, and this woman was really very ordinary, and she could be said to be ugly in the crowd, but the turnip greens had their own love.
King Rama VI was very fond of her, and soon after Suvadana broke the news of her pregnancy, he deposed Indra Sardis from the title of queen and canonized Suvadana as the new queen.
King Rama VI had high hopes for this child, but on November 24, 1925, Queen Suwadana gave birth to a princess, and the king of Thailand was already dying, and he was very disappointed to see that the queen gave birth to a daughter, and died on November 26 with great regret.
So far, Rama VI has completed his short life, and his 15-year reign coincided with the great changes in human society, and he took the initiative to accept Western civilization to lead the country out of crises one after another, but his personal life can also be called wonderful.
Previously, King Rama VI had changed the law to prohibit women from being heirs, and on his deathbed he had to appoint his brother to inherit the throne. What do you think differently about this?