Bhumibol Adulyadej Quotes
Since that time up until the present time, there have been progress, and changes all through the time. The changes have not come by themselves; these changes have come from the doings of everyone in the country.
Adulyadej, Bhumibol. Royal Speech Given to the Audience of Well-Wishers on the Occasion of the Royal Birthday Anniversary, December 4, 1996. Amarin Printing and Publishing, 1997.
Tragically, the world paid a terrible price for the German upheaval before the better world finally emerged.
The changes he wrought were many and profound and were rejected years later when his party was voted out of office so markedly that the only retained 2 seats in the parliament and lost their status as an official Canadian party.
Bhumibol Adulyadej, conferred with the title King Bhumibol the Great in 1987 (officially conferred by King Vajiralongkorn in 2019), was the ninth monarch of Thailand from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama IX. Reigning since 9 June 1946, he was the world's longest-reigning current head of state from the death of Emperor Hirohito of Japan in 1989 until his own death in 2016, and is both the second-longest reigning monarch of all time and the longest-reigning monarch to have reigned only as an adult, reigning for 70 years and 126 days. During his reign, he was served by a total of 30 prime ministers beginning with Pridi Banomyong and ending with Prayut Chan-o-cha.
