| Biography | Margaret, Lady Brooke, The Ranee of Sarawak (1849-1936) was queen-consort of the second White Rajah of Sarawak, Charles Anthony Johnson Brooke. She published her memoir My Life in Sarawak in 1913, that 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 her extraordinary circumstance as Eurasian royalty.
Brooke loved his wife dearly. The Astana was built specially for her as a wedding present. And Fort Margherita, also in Kuching, was named after her. |