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Today a wander through the garden reveals a Victorian gazebo, paths lined with frangi-
pani and a moat around a marble monument built in honour of one of Rama V's favourite
wives, Queen Sunantha, who died in a boating accident in 1880. The queen was on her
way to Bang Pa-In Summer Palace in Ayuthaya when her boat began to sink. The custom
at the time was that commoners were forbidden to touch royalty, which prevented her at-
tendants from saving her from drowning.
