Word: sikkim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American girl hoping to become a princess is how to conduct a TV tour. Grace Kelly led the way in Monaco, and now the U.S.'s only other princess in a ruling family is doing it too. NBC is traveling to the Indian Himalayan protectorate of Sikkim to be shown up and down and all around by Hope Cooke, 22. The wife of the Maharajkumar (Crown Prince) hopes that the cameramen, currently crawling through New Delhi red tape, will hurry. She is shortly due to go into confinement to await the birth of her first child in late February...
Crown Prince Namgyal of Sikkim [March 29] is an amateur radio operator using the call letters AC3PT. To the thousands of us "hams" who have talked to him or have heard him on the air, reading about his wedding to Hope Cooke was indeed a thrill. SUE PIERCE...
...under which the U.S. controls the Canal; of a heart attack; in San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the time of his death. Chapin was on his way to meet his wife on her return from the marriage of their niece and ward, Hope Cooke, to the crown prince of Sikkim; at week's end the newly wed royal couple flew to the U.S. for the funeral...
Guests in top hats and cutaways mingled with others in fur-flapped caps and knee-length yakskin boots last week outside the tiny Buddhist chapel in Sikkim's dollhouse Himalayan capital of Gangtok. Wedding parcels from Tiffany's were piled side by side with bundled gifts of rank-smelling tiger and leopard skins. Over 28,146-ft. Mount Kanchenjunga, the world's third highest mountain and Sikkim's "protecting deity," hung a blue haze. It was an "auspicious sign," said Gangtok astrologers, for the wedding of a quiet, blue-eyed New York girl, Hope Cooke...
Billions of Deities. During the 50-minute Buddhist ceremony, Hope sat on a throne slightly lower than that of the crown prince, who in turn was seated lower than his father, the 69-year-old Maharajah of Sikkim. After drinking tea laced with yak butter, a red-robed Buddhist lama in a flame-shaped hat invoked the blessings of the snow lions and billions of other Sikkimese deities. No wedding vows were spoken; the couple merely exchanged 12-ft.-long white silk scarves, which were hung around each other's neck to seal their marriage contract...