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Hope Cooke (born June 24, 1940) was the Gyalmo (Tibetan: རྒྱལ་མོ་, Wylie: rgyal mo; Queen Consort) of the 12th and last Chogyal (King) of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal. [1] Their wedding took place in March 1963.
The book provides the historical account of Sikkim's annexation by India, its last king Palden Thondup Namgyal and his American wife Hope Cooke. [2] Over the course of ten chapters, Duff explores the politics, plots, and broader regional and political forces that led to the end of the 333-year-long rule of the Chogyals.
Hope Cooke the former Gyalmo (queen) of Sikkim, stated in her autobiography that she believed the 1978 death of the Chogyal's eldest son, Prince Tenzing, a popular figure and defiant Sikkimese nationalist, was orchestrated by India to weaken Sikkimese nationalism, noting that the prince was on a road built for one-way traffic when he was hit by ...
In 1963, Namgyal married Hope Cooke, a 22-year-old American socialite from New York City; [12] she was a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Yonkers in the state of New York. [13] [14] The marriage brought worldwide media attention to Sikkim. The couple, who had two children, divorced in 1980. [15]
Hope Namgyal, née Cooke, who renounced her citizenship on March 25, 1963, after marrying the Crown Prince of Sikkim, [10] later returned to the U.S. and requested restoration of her citizenship by private bill after her husband was deposed. Because of Congressional objections to restoring the citizenship, she was granted a green card ...
She intended on visiting Tibet after her friend Hope Cooke encouraged her but her parents declined. [3] She initially visited Sikkim in 1965 to attend the coronation ceremony of Hope Cooke, an American woman who married Palden Thondup Namgyal, King of Sikkim. At his request, she started a photograph project to illustrate how he and his wife ...
The Hope–Power–Cooke Streets Historic District is a residential historic district on the East Side of Providence, Rhode Island.Located east of Brown University, the area is compact area developed in the mid-to-late 19th century as a residential district, with a cross-section of architectural styles from the early 19th to the early 20th century.
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