The Royal Laotian Flag
The glamor!
The blue jeans!
There are tidbits one wants to know: " Prince Soulivong Savang is a good dancer, singer and musician." (Source) He lives in exile in Paris. He was born on my 17th birthday, so we share the feast of Dame Julian of Norwich.
The constitutional monarchy of Laos was done away with in 1975 when the Communist Pathet Lao took over.
An article in the New York Times from August 13, 2000, says:
Nearly 20 years ago, an 18-year-old prince, heir to a doomed Asian royal line, commandeered a small boat and sailed unnoticed with his brother and their nanny across the Mekong River from Laos to Thailand. Laos had become a Communist nation, in the orbit of neighboring Vietnam, and the prince, Soulivong Savang, feared being co-opted or killed.
Two decades later, the prince -- grandson of the last king of Laos, who died mysteriously in Communist captivity with the prince's father and other relatives -- is beginning to reassert his claim of leadership.
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