Anna Leonowens
Videos
Anna Harriette Leonowens was an Anglo-Indian or Indian-born British travel writer, educator, and social activist.
Anna Leonowens, c. 1905
Anna Leonowens, c. 1862
King Mongkut with his heir, Prince Chulalongkorn, both in naval uniforms (c. 1866)
Leonowens in Montreal with two of her grandchildren
Mongkut
Videos
Mongkut, posthumously honoured as King Mongkut the Great was the king of Siam from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IV. He reigned from 1851 until his death in 1868. Although the term "Siam" had long b
Anna Leonowens
…English Governess at the Siamese Court (1870), which chronicled her experiences in Siam (modern Thailand), as teacher to the children of the Siamese King Mongkut. Leonowens's own account was fictionalised in Margaret Landon's best-selling novel Anna and the King of Siam (1944) as well as adaptations for other…
Portrait by John Thomson, c. 1865
From 1824 to 1851 Prince Mongkut spent his life as a monk
King Mongkut wearing the royal regalia
Arrival of King Mongkut at Wat Pho, photographed by John Thomson, 1865