 " Thibaw Min (also spelt Thebaw or Theebaw)(1859-1916) was the last reigning king of Burma, with his palace in Mandalay.He married his half-sister, Supayalat, shortly before becoming king in 1878 in a bloody palace coup supposedly engineered by his mother-in-law.He introduced a number of reforms but, in 1885, made the mistake of attempting to regain control of Lower Burma from the British forces that had held it since 1824.