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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundred and one booming salutes split the morning: one for each year of the dynasty and one more. As their echo died away, promptly at 8 o'clock one morning last week, the Raja and Ranee of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke & Lady Brooke, left the great ghost-haunted palace from which they had ruled for 24 years, proceeded with guard of honor to the Government offices. There they witnessed the ceremonies that put an end to the absolute rule which the House of the White Rajas of Sarawak had exercised over half a million brown-skinned subjects...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: End of Absolutism | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...your article in TIME, April 21, entitled "Sarawak," you attribute to me the authorship of a book entitled Relations and Complications, which you say reveals the details of the Raja's courtship of me and our marital relations. I did not write the book. It was authored by the wife of the Tuan Muda (Captain Bertram Brooke), my brother-in-law, and it does not contain any details of the type you refer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

...RANEE OF SARAWAK New York City > TIME'S apologies to Sarawak's Ranee for attributing to her the authorship of H.H. the Dayang Muda's innocuous Relations and Complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 9, 1941 | 6/9/1941 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: End of the Line | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

Antoni Brooke promptly went to Rangoon, married a pretty young commoner, Kathleen Hudden. Back in Sarawak, Sir Charles showed his displeasure by removing Antoni as Tuan Muda. Said he tersely: "It appears to us that our nephew is not yet fitted for the exercise of the responsibilities of this high office." Then Sir Charles retired into solitude to think things over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SARAWAK: End of the Line | 4/21/1941 | See Source »

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