The Soul of Nation, in 1979, he asked His Majesty for a view on the role as the Thai Monarch, His Majesty said, “To explain the meaning of the term “monarch” seems to be a question quite difficult to answer, especially, in my own case as I’m being known generally as the MONARCH. In fact, my role is far from being a duty of a monarch as generally understood before. My present duty is to do whatever useful. If asked how many plans I have for the future. My answer is I have no plan. We don’t know what will happen in the future. But no matter what would happen, I will choose to do only useful things, which I think that’s good enough for me.