Prince Nguyen Buu Lan was the son of the 3-day king Nguyen Duc Duc and after the death of Emperor Dong Khanh he became the 10th Emperor of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam in 1889 taking the era-name of Thanh Thai. He was only 10 years old at the time and the years of his minority was used by the French protectorate to further consolidate their authority. Thanh Thai opposed this and began exhbiting insane behavior, possibly to distract the French from his actions. He plotted to join an anti-French royalist independence movement but was discovered and deposed on the grounds of mental illness in 1907. He was later exiled with his son Emperor Duy Tan to the Indian Ocean when he also opposed the French. He returned to Vietnam in 1954 and died that same year. He was buried in the tomb of his father.
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