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Last week, as he issued his constitutional decree from the Raja's palace in Kuching, Sarawak's capital, Sir Charles made up his mind. Said he: "I hereby pronounce my brother, Bertram Brooke, at present the Tuan Muda, to be my heir...
Jamie Brooke was a rich young Briton who bought a ship, stocked it with arms, and sailed for the East Indies as a privateer. One hundred years ago he set himself up as the white Raja of Sarawak, a wild, head-hunting State in northwest Borneo. A British court found evidence that Jamie Brooke had got his principality by violence and trickery, and that he thereafter practiced ruthless extortion on the natives. But he was acquitted, was knighted by Queen Victoria...
Sarawak's present Raja is 66-year-old Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, grandnephew of Sir James. A suave, hard, efficient potentate, he has ruled his 500,000 brown-skinned subjects with an iron hand for 24 years. But last week word reached Britain that on the centenary of Brooke rule in Sarawak last month Sir Charles had set up a constitutional monarchy...
...Esher, published her autobiography, Relations and Complications, indiscreetly revealing the details of Sir Charles's courtship, their marital relations. The Ranee, now in Manhattan, cut off from her British income, works for a living at the Chateau Martin Winery (see cut, p. 57), says she will rejoin the Raja "after...
...these complications undermined the Raja's prestige in Sarawak. Two years ago Sir Charles, looking about for a suitable heir to the throne, decided his brother, Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke (now 64), was too old. Besides, Bertram's wife had also got her name in the papers by embracing Mohammedanism after being successively a Protestant, Christian Scientist, Roman Catholic. So Sir Charles appointed Bertram's son, Antoni Walter Dayrell Brooke, to be Sarawak's Tuan Muda. Then he sailed for England...