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Author_Philip Eade
Brooke family
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English aristocracy
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History of Sarawak
Kingdom of Sarawak
Lady Brooke
Malaysian Borneo
Queen of the Headhunters
Raffles
Sir Charles Vyner
story of a dysfunctional family
Sylvia Brett
the last Ranee of Sarawak
Victoria Glendinning
White Mischief
White Rajah
Product details
- ISBN 9780753823811
- Weight: 320g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2008
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The biography of the last Ranee of Sarawak, born into the aristocracy as Sylvia Brett in 1885 and destined to become 'Queen of the Headhunters'.
'Jaw-dropping ... If you thought White Mischief the last word in English expatriate decadence, you haven't yet met Sylvia and the Brookes' The Times
Sylvia Brooke was the consort of His Highness Sir Vyner Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, the last in a bizarre dynasty of English despots who ruled their jungle kingdom on Borneo until 1946. The White Rajahs were long held up as model rulers, but the spectacularly eccentric behaviour of Ranee Sylvia - self-styled Queen of the Headhunters - changed everything. This is the compelling story of her part in their downfall.
Philip Eade is the author of three highly acclaimed biographies: Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters (2007), Young Prince Philip (2011) and Evelyn Waugh: A Life Revisited (2016). Born in Shropshire and educated at Marlborough and at Bristol University, where he read History, he now lives in London with his wife and daughter.
