Iset’s Reviews > Sylvia, Queen of the Headhunters: An Eccentric Englishwoman and Her Lost Kingdom > Status Update

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"As soon as he arrived back in Sarawak, Vyner had begun to hear disturbing reports about Anthony’s behaviour while he had been away. Among the criticisms were that the Rajah Muda [heir to the throne] had been supercilious, reluctant to take advice, extravagant with government money and had tended to judge officers according to their horoscopes."

"Billed as ‘Queen of the Headhunters’ and once again sporting her royal yellow sarong, she criss-crossed America by train, speaking each evening at a different venue and afterwards taking questions from the floor – the commonest one, so she remembered, was: ‘Why the heck d’ya marry a nigger?’"

Ah, American ignorance is nothing new. The Brooke Raj was also known as the White Rajahs, being an English family.

"Visitors to their house would occasionally be confronted by the sight of the Rajah gliding past them on his skates across the parquet floor, out of control, a cushion stuffed down his trousers in case he fell."

What a strange and awkward childhood.