Sylvia Brett
Sylvia Leonora, Lady Brooke, Rani Sarawak, lahir The Hon. Sylvia Leonora Brett, (25 Februari 1885 – 11 November 1971) adalah permaisuri dari Vyner dari Sarawak, Raja Putih Sarawak yang terakhir.
Sylvia Brett | |
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Kelahiran | No. 1, Tilney Street, Park Lane, Central London | 25 Februari 1885
Kematian | 11 November 1971 | (umur 86)
Pasangan | Charles Vyner Brooke |
Keturunan | Leonora Margaret Brooke Elizabeth Brooke Nancy Valerie Brooke |
Ayah | Reginald Brett, 2nd Viscount Esher |
Ibu | Eleanor Van de Weyer |
Anak-anak
Ia bertahan hidup dengan tiga orang anak yaitu:
- Dayang Leonora Margaret, Countess of Inchcape, istri kedua Earl of Inchcape (dimana ia memiliki seorang putra, Lord Tanlaw, dan seorang putri), dan kemudian menjadi istri dari Kolonel Francis Parker Tompkins (dimana ia memiliki seorang putri).[1]
- Dayang Elizabeth.
- Dayang Nancy Valerie.
Referensi
Bacaan lebih lanjut
- Maurice V. Brett (ed.), Journals and Letters of Reginald Viscount Esher, Vol I: 1870-1903, London, 1934.
- Margaret Brooke, My Life in Sarawak, 1913.
- Sylvia of Sarawak: an autobiography, 1936.
- Sylvia, Lady Brooke, Queen of the Headhunters, 1970.
- Philip Eade, Sylvia, Queen Of The Headhunters: An Outrageous Englishwoman And Her Lost Kingdom, (352 pages), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2007. Lynne Truss, reviewed Eade's book in The Sunday Times, 17 June 2007.
- Sean Hignett, Brett: From Bloomsbury to New Mexico, A Biography, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1984.
- R.H.W. Reece, The Name of Brooke: The End of White Rajah Rule in Sarawak, 1993.
- S. Runciman, The White Rajahs: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946, Cambridge University Press, 1960
Pranala luar
- An essay on Silvia Brooke Diarsipkan 2008-04-03 di Wayback Machine. in The Daily Telegraph (UK), Saturday 2 June 2007, by Philip Eade.
- National Portrait Gallery, London Photographic images of the Brookes by Bassano; Ottoline Morrell; and Paul Tanqueray, 1917 and 1932.