Who is Louis Leonowens

Louis is the nine- or ten-year-old son of Anna. He plays a rather small role in the play, mostly serving as the civilized and rather timid counterpart to the more robust and feisty Prince Chulalongkorn. In the first scene Louis expresses fear for the severe looking, "half-naked" Kralahome, so his mother shows him her method for overcoming fear to "Whistle a Happy Tune"; at the end of the play Louis worries about missing the boat home. He's a typical British schoolboy of the upper class.