- Decided that Siam was no place to raise a girl so she sent her daughter Avis away to school and took only her son Louis with her when she went to the Siamese court to become governess to the King of Siam's children.
- Had four children. The eldest two died in infancy. The surviving children: daughter Avis, and son Louis.
- Combined her husband's middle and last names to give her the name 'Leonowens.' Why she did this is a little unclear, but many people believe she was trying to reinvent herself and not be connected with her Indian origins, as she had hid her partial Indian heritage all her life.
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