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The Hon. Sylvia Leonora Brett, aka Lady Brooke, aka Sylvia Brooke, the last Ranee of Sarawak, State motto: United, Industrious, Dedicated (Malay: Bersatu, Berusaha, Berbakti ) Capital Kuching Governor T.Y.T Tun Datuk Patinggi Abang Muhammad Salahuddin Chief Minister Y.A.B. Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri Haji Abdul Taib Bin Mahmud / Pehin Sri Dr. Hj. ...

most charming despot, author, and Queen of the Headhunters.

Hon. Sylvia was born on 25 February 1885, the second daughter of Reginald Baliol Brett, the 2nd Viscount Esher, KCB., by his wife Eleanor, the third daughter of the Belgian freedom fighter Sylvain Van de Weyer, by his wife Elizabeth the only child of the great financier Joshua Bates of Boston and London. Reginald Baliol Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher, PC (30 June 1852 - 22 January 1930) was an historian and Liberal politician in the United Kingdom. ... The Provisional Government of Belgium: from left to right, Alexandre Gendebien, André Jolly, Charles Rogier, Louis de Potter, Sylvain Van de Weyer, Feuillien de Coppin, Félix de Mérode, Joseph Vanderlinden, Emmanuel van der Linden dHooghvorst. ... Joshua Bates (1788-1864) was an American financier, born at Weymouth, Massachusetts. ... Nickname: Location in Massachusetts, USA Coordinates: Country United States State Massachusetts County Suffolk County Government  - Mayor Thomas M. Menino (D) Area  - City  89. ...

Sylvia's elder sister Dorothy Brett, Brett, (1883-1977), was slightly deaf, went to the Slade in 1910 and became friends with Mark Gertler (1891-1939), and then of Lady Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), even living for a while at Garsington Manor. Meanwhile, Sylvia married, at St. Peter's Church, Cranborne, just before her 36th birthday on 21 February 1911, Rajah Vyner. She was consort, therefore, of White Rajah, His Highness Sir Charles Vyner de Windt Brooke, GCMG, third and last Rajah of Sarawak, the ruler of a 40,000 square mile jungle kingdom on the northern side of Borneo with a population of 500,00 souls; a medley of Chinese, Malays, the Kayan, the Iban, and the headhunting Dyak. The Slade School of Fine Art is an art school based at University College London in the UK. The school traces its roots back to 1868 when Felix Slade decided to establish three Chairs in Fine Art, to be based at Oxford, Cambridge and London—though with only London offering... Mark Gertler, (December 9, 1891 – June 23, 1939), was a British-Jewish portrait painter. ... Lady Ottoline Morrell [1] (June 16, 1873 - April 21, 1938) was an English socialite, friend and patron of many artistic people, including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon and D. H. Lawrence. ... Garsington Manor, in the village of Garsington, near Oxford, England, is a Tudor building, best known as the former home of Lady Ottoline Morrell. ... Cranborne is a village in east Dorset, England. ... The White Rajahs refer to a dynasty that founded and ruled the Kingdom of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946. ... Sir Charles Vyner deWindt Brooke (September 30, 1874–May 9, 1963) was the third and final white Rajah of Sarawak. ... Borneo is the third largest island in the world. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A Modern Iban Longhouse in Kapit Division The Ibans were formerly known during the colonial period by the British as Sea Dayaks and are a branch of the Dayak peoples of Borneo. ... The Dayak IPA: (or Dyak) are natives indigenous to Borneo. ...

Having been born on 26 September 1874 he died on 9 May 1963, at his flat no. 13 Albion street, Paddington, London. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1063x1183, 69 KB) Summary Map of Borneo, based on information from several maps. ...

Described by her brother as 'a female Iago', and by the Colonial Office as: Othello and Iago. ...

'a dangerous woman, full of Machiavellian schemes to alter the succession, and spectacularly vulgar in her behaviour',

Headhunter Sylvie died 11 November 1971, having taken to living in Barbados. Detail of the portrait of Machiavelli, ca 1500, in the robes of a Florentine public official Niccolò Machiavelli (May 3, 1469—June 21, 1527) was an Italian political philosopher during the Renaissance. ...

External

• National Portrait Gallery, London. Photographic images of the Brookes by Bassano; Ottoline Morrell; and Paul Tanqueray, 1917 and 1932.
• Lafayette archive photograph showing her father at the Duchess of Devonshire's Ball, at Devonshire House, 3 July 1897.

• The Times' report of the above mentioned 1897 Ball.

Alexander Bassano (1829-1913) was the leading high society portrait photographer in Victorian London. ... Lady Ottoline Morrell [1] (June 16, 1873 - April 21, 1938) was an English socialite, friend and patron of many artistic people, including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon and D. H. Lawrence. ... Paul Tanqueray (14 January 1905 - September 1991) was an English photographer. ...

Reference

• Ranee Margaret Brooke, My Life in Sarawak, 1913.
• Maurice V. Brett (ed), Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher, Vol I: 1870-1903, London, 1934.
• Sean Hignett: Brett: From Bloomsbury to New Mexico, A Biography, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1984.
• Sylvia of Sarawak: an autobiography, 1936.
• Runciman S, The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946, Cambridge University Press, 1960
• Sylvia, Lady Brooke, Queen of the Headhunters, 1970.
• R.H.W. Reece, The Name of Brooke: The End of White Rajah Rule in Sarawak, 1993.
• Philip Eade, Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom, (352 pages), Weidenfeld & Nicolson (out 21 Jun 2007).