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Author: Philip Eade Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1474609651 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 465
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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.
Author: Philip Eade Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1474609651 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 465
Book Description
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.
Author: Lisa Campbell Ernst Publisher: Dutton Books for Young Readers ISBN: Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 40
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Sylvia Jean has an amazing costume for every occasion, but when a party is announced with a prize for the best costume, she cannot think of what to wear.
Author: Sylvia Casares Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 1250082919 Category : Cooking Languages : en Pages : 243
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Simple, flavor-changing tricks and 80 recipes for enchiladas, fajitas and classic side dishes for the home cook, by Silvia Casares, founder and chef of Texas' favorite Sylvia's Enchilada Kitchen.
Author: Philip Eade Publisher: Orion ISBN: Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 416
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Sylvia Brooke (1885-1971) was one of the more exotic figures of the twentieth century. Otherwise known as the Ranee of Sarawak, she was the consort (and by custom, slave) of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah, whose family had ruled the jungle kingdom of Sarawak on Borneo for three generations. They had their own flag, revenue, postage stamps, and money, and each White Rajah had the power of life and death over his subjects - Malays, Chinese and headhunting Dyak tribesmen.The regime of the White Rajahs was long deemed superior to any in the British Empire. But rather like the French monarchy before the revolution, by the 1930s there was a sharp decline in their power and prestige. When one of the Brooke daughters married a bandleader and another a wrestler, Sarawak threatened to become a music-hall joke. At the centre of this perceived decadence was Ranee Sylvia, author of eleven books, extravagantly-dressed socialite and incorrigible self-dramatist, described by the press as 'that most charming of despots', and by her own brother as 'a female Iago'. The Colonial Office branded her 'a dangerous woman, full of Machiavellian schemes to alter the succession, and spectacularly vulgar in her behaviour. After observing the Ranee dancing with two prostitutes in a nightclub, then taking them back to the palace to paint their portraits, a visiting MP from Westminster concluded that 'a more undignified woman it would be hard to find'.Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters chronicles the extraordinary life of the Ranee, with a supporting cast including Sylvia's father, a celebrated courtier in love with his own son; her whimsical and sexually incontinent husband, Rajah Vyner; the Rajah's unhinged, Rasputinesque private secretary; and the Rajah's nephew, whose folie de grandeur as the young heir gave way (after he was thwarted) to an interest in world peace and flying saucers.
Author: Silvia Z. Mitchell Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 0271084103 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 449
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When Philip IV of Spain died in 1665, his heir, Carlos II, was three years old. In addition to this looming dynastic crisis, decades of enormous military commitments had left Spain a virtually bankrupt state with vulnerable frontiers and a depleted army. In Silvia Z. Mitchell’s revisionist account, Queen, Mother, and Stateswoman, Queen Regent Mariana of Austria emerges as a towering figure at court and on the international stage, while her key collaborators—the secretaries, ministers, and diplomats who have previously been ignored or undervalued—take their rightful place in history. Mitchell provides a nuanced account of Mariana of Austria’s ten-year regency (1665–75) of the global Spanish Empire and examines her subsequent role as queen mother. Drawing from previously unmined primary sources, including Council of State deliberations, diplomatic correspondence, Mariana’s and Carlos’s letters, royal household papers, manuscripts, and legal documents, Mitchell describes how, over the course of her regency, Mariana led the monarchy out of danger and helped redefine the military and diplomatic blocs of Europe in Spain’s favor. She follows Mariana’s exile from court and recounts how the dowager queen used her extensive connections and diplomatic experience to move the negotiations for her son’s marriage forward, effectively exploiting the process to regain her position. A new narrative of the Spanish Habsburg monarchy in the later seventeenth century, this volume advances our knowledge of women’s legitimate political entitlement in the early modern period. It will be welcomed by scholars and students of queenship, women’s studies, and early modern Spain.
Author: Crystal Moss Publisher: Christian Faith Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 1098096169 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 66
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As he walked through the castle to search for his daughter, he came upon a room whose door had a name written on it; the name was Mirabelle. His heart started to beat fast as he pushed the door open. His eyes saw the coffin sitting in the room, and he began to realize that he was in his dream that he had been having for so long. He began to pray outside of the room and then entered and closed his eyes. He stepped to the coffin slowly and laid his hand on it; he wept with pain and agony in his heart. He then opened the coffin and grabbed Mirabelle with his eyes still closed. When he got her over his shoulder, he began to rub her on her back and pray for her because he knew that’s what she would want. A few minutes later, he heard a small voice say, “Hi, Daddy.” He had everything a king could have ever wanted, but his task was far greater than he expected. Running a kingdom blind is what King Hector had to do. Keeping his spiritual life balanced with a wife and child, not knowing whom to trust and who were backstabbers—all while trying to regain his eyesight, but behind everything, he’s going through, there’s a reason.
Author: James Branch Cabell Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arthurian romances Languages : en Pages : 388
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This satiric novel tells the story of a middle-aged man on a journey through fantastic realms, where he meets and seduces beautiful women of fiction and myth - including the Devil's wife.
Author: Philip Eade
Author: Philip Eade
Author: Lisa Campbell Ernst
Author: Sylvia Casares
Author: Philip Eade
Author: Silvia Z. Mitchell
Author: Crystal Moss
Author: Gérard Herzhaft
Author: Holstein-Friesian Association of America
Author: James Branch Cabell
Author: JAMES BRANCH CAMBELL