Margaret | |||||
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Ranee of Sarawak | |||||
Tenure | 28 October 1869 – 17 May 1917 | ||||
Born | Margaret Alice Lili de Windt 9 October 1849 Paris, France | ||||
Died | 1 December 1936 London, England, UK | (aged 87)||||
Spouse | Charles Brooke | ||||
Issue | Dayang Ghita Brooke James Harry Brooke Charles Clayton Brooke Charles Vyner Brooke Bertram Brooke Harry Keppel Brooke | ||||
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House | White Rajahs (by marriage) | ||||
Father | Joseph Clayton Jennyns de Windt | ||||
Mother | Elizabeth 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.