Word: sarawak
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...where he has to get on his knees to blow up the fire. The Ranee was in London, celebrating at Giro's with their three pretty daughters. In the House of Commons came an announcement. Ailing, 71 -year-old Sir Charles Vyner Brooke had decided to cede his Sarawak state to Great Britain for one million pounds...
...scoffed at Tory demands in Parliament that the Sarawak State Council pass on her husband's proposal. "Poor darlings, don't they understand? The Sarawak people agree to anything the Raja wants. It's just a case of a few leading ones squatting on the verandah and saying, 'Yes, Raja!' But they don't like Anthony Brooke-he's got a power complex. If he wants a game of golf, he phones the police to have the road cleared for his car. If we want a game, we walk...
...Raja tried to close the issue raised by the Tories with a letter to the London Times. "All is peace in Sarawak," he pontificated. "The natives have confidence in myself and my private secretary...
Head-Hunters & Glamor. Sir Charles who became a constitutional monarch in 1941, has found it even more difficult to maintain discipline over his glamorous family than over his head-hunting subjects. Despite his patient parental plaints that there are no legal princesses on Sarawak, his three daughters continue to be dubbed Princesses Gold, Baba and Pearl. Leonora Margaret (Princess Gold) pleased her father when she became the second wife of the late 2nd Earl of Inch-cape. Less pleased was the Raja when his daughter Elizabeth (Princess Pearl) married Jazz Bandleader Harry Roy, and his youngest daughter, Nancy Valerie (Princess...
...Charles questioned his fitness for administrative work. So Anthony's father, Captain Bertram Brooke, became the presumptive Raja. Since then Anthony has been restored to favor. Now, with the Japs on the run and the old Raja engrossed in gardening, it looks as if Anthony will become Sarawak's next White Raja after...