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...debutante and a Sarah Law rence graduate (in Oriental studies), Hope Cooke had a crush on Central Asia. Her dreams seemed to come ro mantically true last March when she married Sikkim's Crown Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal in a now-legendary ceremony at the capital city of Gangtok (TIME, March 23). Last week, when the crown prince's 70-year-old father, Maharajah Sir Tashi Namgyal, died of cancer in a Calcutta nursing home, Hope and her husband mounted the throne of the mountain-locked Himala yan kingdom. The formal coronation will take place after one year...
...national park like Yellowstone. The new Maharajah personally owns Kanchenjunga which, at 28,146 ft., is the third tallest moun tain in the world and probably the world's most majestic when its snowy peaks are lit by the sunrise and borne aloft on lacy clouds. Sikkim contains every variety of climate and plant, from the subtropical through the temperate to the arctic. Snow leopards prowl the Himalayan slopes, pandas frolic in the forested gorges, clouds of butterflies hover over 3,000 different kinds of rhododendron and 400 types of orchid...
...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...