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She was termed Her Highness The Crown Princess of Sikkim and became the Gyalmo of Sikkim at Palden Thondup Namgyal's coronation in 1965. [2] She is the first American-born Queen Consort. [3] In 1975 Namgyal was deposed and Sikkim merged into India as a result of internal turmoil, Indian military intervention and a referendum.
King and Queen of Sikkim, 1966. 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.
Queen of Sikkim San Francisco, California: King Palden Thondup Namgyal: Kingdom of Sikkim: March 20, 1963 – 1980 (divorce) [25] [34] [35] Lisa Halaby Queen Noor of Jordan: Princeton, New Jersey: Hussein of Jordan: Jordan: June 15, 1978 – February 7, 1999 (his death) [25] [26] [27] Jamie Lee Curtis: Baroness Haden-Guest: Santa Monica, California
After her death, he married dynastically to Anna Juliana Gonzaga and fathered Anna of Tyrol, Holy Roman Empress. 4 July 1568: King Eric XIV of Sweden and Karin Månsdotter, daughter of a prison guard. He was deposed within a year. 1698: Leopold I, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau and Anna Luise Föhse
Statue of Padmasambhava or Guru Rinpoche Tsuklakhang Palace. From 1642 to 1975, Sikkim was ruled by the Namgyal Monarchy (also called the Chogyal Monarchy), founded by Phuntsog Namgyal, the fifth-generation descendant of Guru Tashi, a prince of the Minyak House who came to Sikkim from the Kham province of Tibet. [3]
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 ...
Alice S. Kandell in Sikkim, c. 1960s-1970s Alice S. Kandell is an American child psychologist, author, photographer and art collector interested in Himalayan culture. [ 1 ] She worked extensively in the Indian state of Sikkim as a photographer, capturing approximately 15,000 color slides, as well as black-and-white photographs, between 1965 and ...
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