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Issue 30, Volume 63
319
Royal Gazette

10 May 2489

Somdet Phra Chaoyuhua Ananda Mahidol[1] makes His appearance at the Divine Hall of Eternal Union[2] amidst a full assembly of senior and junior members of the royal family, corps of diplomats representing various countries, House of Representatives Members, and military and civil royal officers, who, in unison and in sequence, are in attendance by the side of His lotus feet.[3]

With His gracious pleasure, He orders that it be announced as follows: Phra Bat Somdet Phra Paramin Maha Prajadhipok, Mahantadechanadilok Ramathibodi, Phra Pok Klao Chaoyuhua,[4] granted His public servants and people a great opportunity to have a say and play a part in improving the Thai Country according to their right ideology for the prosperity of Hers in the future, by conferring [upon them] with His gracious pleasure on the 27th day of June 2475 Buddhist Era an interim Constitution for the public administration, just for enabling the House of Representatives and the Committee to organise the work of governance suiting the change. Later on, He, with His pleasure, ordered the House of Representatives to discuss together and further draft a Constitution of the King-

  1. King Ananda Mahidol. According to Samnak-ngan Soemsang Ekkalak Khong Chat (2012, p. 268), Somdet Phra Chaoyuhua (Thai: สมเด็จพระเจ้าอยู่หัว; literally, "His Divine Majesty the Lord Over the Heads") is a title given to a monarch who has not yet been crowned formally.
  2. Ananta Samakhom Throne Hall. See also the note about its etymology.
  3. See also this note about the term lotus feet.
  4. The title of King Prajadhipok, which literally translates as "The Divine Feet of His Divine Majesty the Paramount Indra, the Great Prajadhipok, the Excellent, Enormous Arrow, the Overlord Rama, the Divine Pok Klao, the Lord Over the Heads".