Saranrom Park
Victorian royal garden near the Grand Palace, with a marble monument to a drowned queen and her daughter.
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In Saranrom Park near Bangkok's Grand Palace, a marble monument marks the 1880 drowning of nineteen-year-old Queen Sunanda Kumariratana and her infant daughter, and the guide untangles a story the city has repeated for over a century against King Chulalongkorn's own diary of the accident. It follows the grieving king's rose garden and the memorial he built in the palace grounds she had loved. Look for the English-language inscription slab among the frangipani, added for any foreign visitor who passed.
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