Chula Chakrabongse

Chula Chakrabongse
Chula Chakrabongse
Prince of Siam
Spouse Elizabeth Hunter
Issue
Mom Rajawongse Narisa Chakrabongse
Full name
His Serene Highness
Prince (Mom Chao) Bhongsechak Chakrabhongse :
(28 March 1908 – 14 June 1920
His Royal Highness
Prince Chula Chakrabongse :
(14 June 1920 – 30 December 1963)
Father Prince Chakrabongse Bhuvanath, The Prince of Phitsanulok
Mother Ekaterina Desnitskaya
Born 28 March 1908 (1908-03-28)
Died 30 December 1963 (1963-12-31) (age 55)

His Royal Highness Prince Chula Chakrabongse of Siam (28 March 1908 – 30 December 1963) (พระเจ้าวรวงศ์เธอ พระองค์เจ้าจุลจักรพงษ์), was a member of the Siamese (Thai) Royal Family, and the House of Chakrabhongse. He was the only child of Prince Chakrabhongse Bhuvanath, The Prince of Phitsanulok, and his Ukrainian wife, Ekaterina (Catherine) Desnitskaya (later Mom Catherine Na Phitsanulok). He was a grandson of King Chulalongkorn, Rama V of Siam.

Early life

HRH Prince Chula Chakrabongse was born on 28 March 1908 in Parusakawan Palace, Bangkok, with the title Mom Chao (His Serene Highness). Queen Saovabha Bhongsri, his grandmother, gave him the name Bhongsechak (พงษ์จักร). Later his uncle, King Vajiravudh, raised him the higher rank of Phra Chao Worawongse Ther Phra Ong Chao (His Royal Highness Prince) and changed his name to Chula Chakrabhongse. Palace officials affectionately called him Than Phra Ong Noo (ท่านพระองค์หนู) - the Little Prince.

When very young, Chula was sent to study in Britain, where he also spent his teenage years, not returning to Siam until he was 23.

Later life

In 1938 he married Elizabeth Hunter, an English woman (known as Lisba). Their daughter, Mom Rajawongse Narisa Chakrabhongse, was born in 1956.[1] [2] They lived at Tredethy, St Mabyn, in Cornwall in the 1940s and 1950s.[3]

When Prince Chula's cousin Prince Bira went to England in 1927, Chula was supervising a racing team called White Mouse Racing.[4] Prince Bira decided to drive for him.

In 1936 Chula's White Mouse team purchased an ERA for Bira, and he quickly became one of the leading exponents of this class of international racing. Bira's partnership with Prince Chula ended in late 1948.

Prince Chula was the author of several books, including a history of the Chakri dynasty, Lords of Life: the paternal monarchy of Bangkok, 1782-1932, a biography entitled Dick Seaman: a racing champion and his own autobiography: Chakrabongse, HRH Chula, Prince of Thailand (1957). The twain Have Met : An Eastern Prince Came West. United Kingdom: G.T. Foulis & Co. OCLC 11760365. Lay summary (June 26, 2001). 

Prince Chula died of cancer in 1963 at the age of 55.

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