Ananda Mahidol [b] (20 September 1925 – 9 June 1946), titled Rama VIII, was King of Thailand from 2 March 1935 until his assassination in 1946. At the time he was recognised as king by the National Assembly in March 1935, he was a nine-year-old boy living in Switzerland.

Ananda Mahidol was the eighth king of the Chakkri dynasty of Siam, whose mysterious death was one of the most traumatic events in the history of modern Thailand. Ananda was only 10 years old and a schoolboy in Switzerland when he succeeded his uncle, King Prajadhipok, in 1935.

2011年9月28日 · Ananda Mahidol was a slight and painfully shy boy. When he was nine years old in 1935, he became the eighth king of Siam and captured the hearts of his people. But his reign was...

Ananda Mahidol (Thai: อานันทมหิดล; RTGS: Ananthamahidon; 20 September 1925 – 9 June 1946), also known as Rama VIII, was King of Thailand, reigning from 1935 until his assassination in 1946.

2022年1月11日 · In 1946, Thailand’s King Ananda Mahidol died from a single gunshot wound to the forehead. He was just 20 years of age. In the years since, the identity of the person or persons who pulled the...

2018年2月19日 · Ananda Mahidol, Thailand’s king Rama VIII, died on the 3rd of June, 1946. He was only twenty at the time. A child when he was elected successor to the throne in 1935, he continued to be educated in Switzerland, not visiting Thailand as …

2024年4月6日 · Ananda, who was found lying face up in bed with a gunshot wound in his head on June 9, 1946, was murdered, according to official investigations and three court verdicts that concluded in 1954.

2024年4月5日 · A Thai court is holding hearings on a petition seeking to reopen one of the most controversial cases in the country’s modern history, the death of King Ananda Mahidol who was found shot dead in...

Ananda Mahidol (20 September 1925 – 9 June 1946) was the eighth king of Siam (later Thailand) from the Chakri dynasty, titled Rama VIII. At the time he was recognised as king by the National Assembly in March 1935, he was a nine-year-old boy living in Switzerland.

When King Rama VII abdicated the throne, the next in line was Prince Mahitala Dhibesra, but as he had died, the crown then passed to his eldest son, who was Prince Ananda Mahidol, who hence became King Rama VIII.