The descendants of exiled King Thibaw sense a revival and hope to bring his body home a century after he died in India Soe Win has never lived in a palace or held court, and his previous job was ...
More than a century after the British expelled Myanmar’s last king, descendants held an emotional ceremony in Mandalay’s Golden Palace on Tuesday in a watershed moment for a country rediscovering its ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Taw Phaya (C), 93, grandson of King Thibaw, attends a ceremony with relatives at Mandalay's Golden Palace on November 22, 2016 to ...
When British soldiers conquered Burma in 1885, they gave the last king hours to pack. Many of his treasures - heirlooms from a millennium of monarchy- were seized and sent to Britain. But the most ...
In the summer of 1944, a white man showed up in the coastal town of Ratnagiri to explore the former residence of a political personage. The “two-storey building of local laterite and lava rock,” John ...
When you visit the home of the long-lost heir to the Burmese throne, you’re not supposed to sit on a chair. Nor are you to sit on the wooden bench, above which hang black and white family portraits, ...
When Subhatra Bhumibrabhas said she wanted to translate The King In Exile: The Fall Of The Royal Family Of Burma by Sudha Shah, people warned that the prospects weren't that bright. Why, they said, ...