His Majesty King Prajadhipok, or Rama VII, was also the son of Rama V and the younger brother of Rama VI. He was a liberal and a conscientious man. He was well aware of the desirability of establishing Siam in the international political community as a country with a modern and liberal constitutional system of government. His plan to grant a form of democracy to Siam slowly, together with educating his people over time, so both the system and the people can adapt to become a near-perfect system. He granted democracy in 1932, not putting his plan into action, but a more hurried version pressured by a group of nobles wanting to make the power their own. This finally ended absolute monarchy in Siam. He thus became the first constitutional monarch. In 1935, the king abdicated the throne as he was not happy of how Siam has evolved, for which he had no control over at all. With corruption becoming the norm since the first day of change, the king went abroad to live quietly in England until his death in 1941. He became the first Thai King to die abroad, and not receiving the Royal Funeral Procession accorded to the past and future Siamese Kings