The White Rajahs of Sarawak


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An interesting and unusual 'curiousity' that history can throw up from time to time. Not unlike the Clunes-Ross family in fact. I believe that they should have continued in power to this very day as well.
 
I have added some links to John Clunes-Ross and his family who founded a kingdom on the Cocos Islands:

King of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ian Clunies Ross - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
» ATSE Clunies Ross Foundation

An interesting and unusual 'curiousity' that history can throw up from time to time. Not unlike the Clunes-Ross family in fact. I believe that they should have continued in power to this very day as well.
 
"The White Rajahs" by Nicholas Monsarrat
 
The last Crown Prince of Sarawak dies aged 98

Former HH Rajah Muda (Crown Prince), Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, 98, passed away in Wanganui, New Zealand on March 2. He is survived by his wife Gita, son James Lionel, daughter Celia and grandchildren Jason, Laurence and Sura.
Anthony was born in England in 1912. He was the only son of the Tuan Muda of Sarawak Captain Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke.
Anthony’s uncle Sir Charles Vyner Brooke was the third Rajah of Sarawak. Sir James Brooke became Rajah in 1841 and the Brooke family ruled Sarawak until the Japanese invasion in 1941.
As Sir Charles had no male heir, Anthony’s father, the co-ruling Tuan Muda was the heir-apparent. However, he renounced his claim in favour of his son, who was duly appointed Rajah Muda and heir-apparent in his place. - The Star online
The Telegraph obituary
Borneo Post

The Malaysian Insider
 
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Sarawak one dollar of 1935 with an effigy of Rajah Charles Vyner.
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Sarak dollar one cent coin with an effigy of Rajah Charles.
 
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Former HH Rajah Muda (Crown Prince), Anthony Walter Dayrell Brooke, 98, passed away in Wanganui, New Zealand on March 2. He is survived by his wife Gita, son James Lionel, daughter Celia and grandchildren Jason, Laurence and Sura.
Anthony was born in England in 1912. He was the only son of the Tuan Muda of Sarawak Captain Bertram Willes Dayrell Brooke.
Anthony’s uncle Sir Charles Vyner Brooke was the third Rajah of Sarawak. Sir James Brooke became Rajah in 1841 and the Brooke family ruled Sarawak until the Japanese invasion in 1941.
As Sir Charles had no male heir, Anthony’s father, the co-ruling Tuan Muda was the heir-apparent. However, he renounced his claim in favour of his son, who was duly appointed Rajah Muda and heir-apparent in his place. - The Star online
The Telegraph obituary
Borneo Post

The Malaysian Insider
The British Government forced the Brooke family to give up Sarawak in 1946. The Brookes got pensions. Sarawak would be better off if the Brooke's had retained their throne
 
The British Government forced the Brooke family to give up Sarawak in 1946. The Brookes got pensions. Sarawak would be better off if the Brooke's had retained their throne

Why do you think Sarawak would be better off?
 
I don't think that the Brookes would have been able to retain their throne following the end of WWII. All forms of colonialism was being transferred into new democracies, in various forms.
 
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