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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...
...RANEE OF SARAWAK...
...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...