Cooke, Hope (1940–)
Cooke, Hope (1940–)
Queen of Sikkim. Name variations: Maharani of Sikkim. Born June 24, 1940, in San Francisco, California; granddau. and ward of Mr. and Mrs. Winchester Noyes; graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in Oriental studies; m. the widowed Crown Prince of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923–1982), Mar 1963 (later crowned chogyal or king, div. 1980); remarried, 1987; children: Palden and Hope.
While she was on a visit to NY with her children (1975), her husband was placed under house arrest and Sikkim was annexed by India as its 22nd state; became a historian, especially of New York.
See also autobiography Time Change (Simon & Schuster, 1980).
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