Word: sarawak
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Although Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Raja of Sarawak, British protectorate in northwest Borneo, has the power of life & death over 500,000 brown-skinned subjects, he has never been able to establish much discipline over his own family. Ever since Privateer Jamie Brooke, of Coombe Grove, England, "persuaded" the Sultan of Brunei to give him an East Indian kingdom in 1841, the Brookes have been a strong ruling dynasty. Sir Charles (grandnephew of Jamie) modestly records in the British Who's Who that he has "led several expeditions into the far interior of the country to punish headhunters...
...daughters have brought the reigning House of Brooke plenty of headaches. They came to be known as the Princesses Gold, Baba and Pearl, in spite of the fact that His Highness the Raja once scornfully pointed out to British newspapers that Sarawak has no legal Princesses. He gave his three daughters proper titles as Miss Leonora Margaret Brooke, Miss Elizabeth Brooke, Miss Nancy Valerie Brooke...
Great Britain has most of Malaya, Burma, Sarawak, the other half of New Guinea, and Hong Kong...
...Hollywood went H. R. H. Sylvia, white-skinned Ranee of Sarawak,* for a public reconciliation with her cinemastruck daughter, Mrs. Bob Gregory ("Princess Baba" of Sarawak), who married a wrestler against her mother's wishes. To newsmen the Ranee complained: "My daughter is not a princess and never was a princess!" Added pretty Mrs. Gregory: "And my name was never Princess Baba either...
...Sarawak, an independent State in Borneo, is governed by the pure-British heirs of Sir James Brooke, who became its first Rajah...