The King of Thailand Birthplace Foundation (KTBF) is co-hosting a cultural event August 15th at Longfellow House Museum in Cambridge, at which Gloucester’s role of the Trail of Thai Royalty will be displayed.
From The Longfellow House Bulletin Found Here
Prince Mahidol Songkla of Thailand was the sixtyninth child of King Chulalongkorn by one of his wives, Queen Savang Vadhana. The prince attended a prestigious boarding school in England before going to university in Germany. On
August 27, 1916, he and his party arrived in Gloucester,Massachusetts. He had come to study at the School of Public Health, part of Harvard Medical School and the Institute of Technology. At the time, he was among many Siamese students in America,
but the first Thai royal to study in the U.S.
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Thanks Amy Shapiro for the heads up.
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