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...Wife of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke. "White Raja" of Sarawak, Her Highness the Ranee last July criticized British handling of refugee children, praised U.S. and Canadian generosity. TIME's reference was based on remarks widely but evidently mistakenly attributed to her by the Canadian press. To the humanitarian Rance TIME's apologies for the mistake...
Divorced. Blonde Valerie Brooke Gregory ("Princess Baba"), 24, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak; by Wrestler Bob Gregory, 28, onetime claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can title; after three married years; in Los Angeles. Grounds: "She is always somewhere else...
...needed to make the kingdom's famed headhunters toe the mark. Heir Presumptive to the Sarawak throne was Sir Charles's brother, Bertram. But Bertram is now 63, too old to assume new burdens. So Anthony Brooke, Bertram's 27-year-old son, was named Raja Muda (Crown Prince...
Last autumn Crown Prince Anthony unexpectedly married a certain Kathleen Hudden at Rangoon, Burma. The petulant Raja was not long in letting it be known that he considered Miss Hudden a nobody. It was too much like the marriage of his two daughters. It indicated that the Crown Prince lacked the tough, buccaneering spirit of the Brookes' fighting ancestors...
Last week Raja Sir Charles issued a decree from his palace in Kuching, Sarawak's capital, blackballed Anthony Brooke as his heir with this terse announcement: "It appears to us that our nephew is not yet fitted for the exercise of the responsibilities of this high office...