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had not been dead when the Princess
King P'rajai long
Regent fell passionately in love with a young man named
P'an Sri But who held a official
T'ep, petty appointment.
He was loath to to her amorous
nothing respond
advances, and ere long found himself transferred to a
in the with the title of K'un
post palace, Jinarat.
As a result of this the Princess
intrigue, Regent gave
birth to a and the infatuated
daughter, woman, finding
further concealment determined to a
impossible, put
bold face upon the matter by making her lover Regent.
It so that certain disturbances occurred at
happened
this time in the northern of the
provinces Kingdom.
The Princess Regent took advantage of this to obtain
the consent of her Ministers to raise a considerable
body of troops for the purpose, as she pretended, of
the of the K'un
protecting person young King. Jinarat
was entrusted with the duty of enlisting the troops.
He filled the with officered men in
capital troops by
whom he thought he could trust to acquiesce in the
projected plot.
The next was to remove
step dangerous opponents.
Maha an who was known to
P'ya Sena, aged nobleman,
of the Princess was
disapprove Regent's proceedings,
stabbed in the and others shared
treacherously back,
a similar fate. Pinto, with his usual exaggeration,
asserts that hardly a nobleman was left alive.
Having cleared her Council of all but a few subservient
the Princess obtained their consent to the
reptiles,
of K'un as the
appointment Jinarat Regent during
of Keo with the title of K'un
minority King Fa,
Worawongsa.
The young King was now over thirteen years of age,
old to understand and of his
quite enough disapprove
mother's conduct. We that he showed
may easily suppose