A consort of the Sarawak is a person married to a White Rajah of Sarawak during his reign. All spouses of the rajahs of Sarawak have been titled "Ranee of Sarawak" (from Malay راني rani ultimately from Sanskrit राज्ञी rā́jñī[1]) with the style Her Majesty.
Consorts of Sarawak
Picture | Name | Father | Birth | Marriage | Became Consort | Ceased to be Consort | Death | Spouse |
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Margaret Alice Lili de Windt | Joseph Clayton Jennyns de Windt | 1849 | 28 October 1869 | 28 October 1869 | 17 May 1917 husband's death |
1936 | Charles Brooke |
Sylvia Leonora Brett | Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher | 25 February 1885 | 21 February 1911 | 24 May 1917 husband's ascension |
1 July 1946 monarchy abolished |
11 November 1971 | Charles Vyner Brooke |
See also
References
- ^ Wilkinson, Richard James (1932). "rani". A Malay-English dictionary (romanised). Vol. II. Mytilene: Salavopoulos & Kinderlis. p. 313.
- Ranee Margaret of Sarawak (2001). My Life in Sarawak. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-582663-9.
- Sylvia, Lady Brooke (1970). Queen of the Headhunters.
- Eade, Philip (2007). Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: A Biography of Lady Brooke, the Last Ranee of Sarawak. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson.
- Reece, R.H.W. (1993). The Name of Brooke: The End of White Rajah Rule in Sarawak.
- Runciman, Steven (1960). The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
- Schutte, O (1981). "M. R. H. Calmeyer, de Wind, de Windt, de Wint". De Nederlandsche Leeuw. p. 23.
- "Quast". Nederlandse Genealogieen. Vol. 11. Den Haag: Koninklijk Genootschap voor Geslacht- en Wapenkunde. 1996. (Literature regarding Broek-De Wind)
- Halliburton, Richard (1932). The Flying Carpet. Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. pp. 297–312.
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