Margaret Brooke

Margaret
Portrait of Margaret of Sarawak wearing her royal attire, around 1910.
Ranee of Sarawak
Tenure28 October 1869 – 17 May 1917
BornMargaret Alice Lili de Windt
(1849-10-09)9 October 1849
Paris, France
Died1 December 1936(1936-12-01) (aged 87)
London, England, UK
SpouseCharles Brooke
IssueDayang Ghita Brooke
James Harry Brooke
Charles Clayton Brooke
Charles Vyner Brooke
Bertram Brooke
Harry Keppel Brooke
Names
Margaret Alice Lili de Windt
HouseWhite Rajahs (by marriage)
FatherJoseph Clayton Jennyns de Windt
MotherElizabeth Sarah Johnson

Margaret, Lady Brooke, Ranee of Sarawak (born Margaret Alice Lili de Windt; 9 October 1849 – 1 December 1936) was the Ranee of the second White Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Anthony Johnson Brooke. She published her memoir, My Life in Sarawak, in 1913. The memoir offers a rare glimpse of life in The Astana in Kuching and colonial Borneo. The Ranee became legendary during her lifetime as a woman of strength and intelligence, as well as on account of her status, which she shared with the other White Rajahs, of being at once a British subject and an Asian monarch.