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Try to imagine a simple Thai Chinese girl who\u2014from humble background, still in her teens, painfully shy and inexperienced when she began\u2014would in three decades play hostess to the world\u2019s rich and famous, noted writers, politicians, heads-of-state, prince and princess, kings and queens, sultans and maharajas\u2014and anybody who was anyone.<\/p>\n

Sooner or later they all came to the Oriental Hotel in Bangkok and Pornsri was there to meet and befriend them, and often become their confidants.<\/p>\n

For 29 years Pornsri Luphaiboon was PR Director of the Oriental Hotel\u2014mostly before it became Mandarin-Oriental\u2014and this is her story in photographs, and re-told by Southeast Asia\u2019s best known ex-pat writer, Harold Stephens.<\/p>\n

As a writer for the Bangkok Post, Stephens met many stars and celebrities, and he adds his comments to the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Try to imagine a simple Thai Chinese girl who\u2014from humble background, still in her teens, painfully shy and inexperienced when she began\u2014would in three decades play hostess to the world\u2019s rich and famous, noted writers, politicians, heads-of-state, prince and princess, kings and queens, sultans and maharajas\u2014and anybody who was anyone. Sooner or later they all…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1772,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[118],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-78","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-uncategorized","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"shipping-taxable","11":"purchasable","12":"product-type-variable"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfendenpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfendenpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfendenpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfendenpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wolfendenpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfendenpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfendenpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=78"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wolfendenpublishing.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}