Margaret Landon

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Loenowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many children of the stubborn King Mongkut of Siam. Anna and the King have a clash of personalities as she works to teach the royal family about the English language, customs and etiquette, and rushes to prepare a party for a group of European diplomats who must change their opinions about the King.

In 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.

Telecast of the making of a 1992 Philips recording of the Rogers and Hammerstein musical, "The King and I."

A stern schoolteacher clashes with an aristocratic 19th-century king.