ECONOMICAL ROYAL WEDDING.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3147, 11 December 1922, Page 7

ECONOMICAL ROYAL WEDDING.

Tim King of Siam is thritfy. Hence, when it came to the question of taking a. wife and ho contemplated the great cost of the elaborate ceremonies the people would expect, he married his wife Gy royal proclamation, says the Daily Mail, thus saving a lot of money. There is an old Siamese custom which makes such action proper and binding. He is just as much married by this method .according to Siamese law, as bv an other.

I,ash year the King was engaged to Ids new Queen’s half sister. Princess Vallatha, hut that hetroth.nl was declared annulled by a royal decree. That was a oncer document.

“His Majesty’s noble desire,” it stated, “(irmly and definitely to ensure the succession to the throne cannot satisfactorily be met owing to the incompatibility of temperament between bis Majesty and Princess Valiullin, which may be accounted for by the chronic disposition of the Princess, whose nervous system leaves much to be desired.” Shortly afterward the King became engaged to Princess Lakslnni.

His Majesty is 12 years old and an honorary general of the British army. He came to England when he was 13 and was educated at Oxford and Sandhurst. Afterward lie was attached to ilie Durham light infantry. He speaks English well and is conversant with Western manners and customs, including its various methods of tying and untying tho nuptial knot.