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In the novel, Anna and the King by Margaret Landon, Anna was born in Wales on November 5, 1834. When she was six her father was sent to India to fight. Her mother went with and that left Anna at school. Anna later finds out her father was killed. Anna goes to India to live with her mom who had remarried. Anna then later falls in love with a British officer named Major Thomas Louis Leonowens. They then married two years later in 1851. A year after there first child, a girl, was born. Sadly she did not live long. Anna’s mother who had come so close to the baby died soon after. Grief drove the young couple back to England. Anna soon healed and bore two children, Avis and Louis. The family was depending so much on Leons salary which was not very
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