After many centuries
of exile the Sri Lankan Royal Family returned to Sri Lanka!

This explains the continued
existence of The Peking Hotel
on Lipton
Circus (De Zoysa Circus) which once got done for serving stir fried cat!
The
Chinese family believed to be descendants of King Parakramabahu VI
arrived at the Bandaranaike International Airport early yesterday.
Pictured from left are Shih Chih Chua ( daughter), Prince Shih Lai
Fa , Shih Chia Hua (daughter) Shih Chia Hsu (son) and wife Shih
Hsiao Kuan. It is believed that the king had sent his son Ba Lai Na
as an envoy to China, where he settled down there after marrying a
Chinese girl of Persian origin. The title 'Shih' in their names
means 'Sinhala' in Chinese. Pic. By Nihal Fernando
Source: Daily Mirror 8th June 2002
SCN comment: This is
one of the far-fetched and really way out stories that we have come
across on the SriLankan media and even beats the "Ranil is God"
story! As such a word of assurance is required. We assure you our
readers that this pic and the above caption actually appeared on the
electronic Daily Mirror as well as on the Daily Noise. Do check
their archives if you don't believe us.
The speech balloons
are ours of course..... |
THE
SCN SAYS:
Werrcome
to Sli Ranka Your Majesty. It is at a time rike this that we need
our King back. King Lanil is no good, Queen Chandlika is no good and
the King of Eeram goes Chop Chop (or rather, Bang! Bang!)
We
certainly can see the family resemblance. You have got old
Palaklamabahu's nose...and the stone face!
Hold a
Puss Kola Potha and stand on the banks of Palaklama Samudhla and
evelyone will acknowledge you as our King. We ourselves are
descended from King Sri Wicklama Lajasinghe (thats what the late old
eccentric maternal Granny used to say!... he was the last king of SL
who incidentally was a South Indian.)
So a
double welcome.
Lissen
mate! If all fails you can open a Chinese Takeaway at GasPaha
Handiya...
Further
reading: History of SriLanka (abridged) |
We have slightly distorted the
history of Sri Lanka and know very well that there were several
Parakramabahus....Don't write!
| All
speech balloons and photo manipulations are the work of SCN and
please don't blame the original publisher, agency or the
photographer... |
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