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...hundred and one booming salutes split the morning: one for each year of the dynasty and one more. As their echo died away, promptly at 8 o'clock one morning last week, the Raja and Ranee of Sarawak, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke & Lady Brooke, left the great ghost-haunted palace from which they had ruled for 24 years, proceeded with guard of honor to the Government offices. There they witnessed the ceremonies that put an end to the absolute rule which the House of the White Rajas of Sarawak had exercised over half a million brown-skinned subjects...
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...
...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...
...months) for his beliefs in World War I, announced from California that he had changed his mind: "Since the war began, I have felt that I could not go on being a pacifist. If I were young enough to fight I would do so." Visiting in England, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, "White Rajah" of Sarawak (Northwestern Borneo), contributed 1,000,000 Malayan Straits dollars (about $470,000) to help the British Government...