Hope Cooke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Hope Cooke

American author, historian and former Queen of Sikkim

Date of Birth: 24-Jun-1940

Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States

Profession: historian, queen consort, journalist, autobiographer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Hope Cooke

  • Hope Cooke (born June 24, 1940) is an American who was the "Gyalmo" (Tibetan: ????????, Wylie: rgyal mo) (Queen Consort) of the 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal.
  • Their wedding took place in March 1963.
  • She was termed Her Highness The Crown Princess of Sikkim and became the Gyalmo of Sikkim at Palden Thondup Namgyal's coronation in 1965.Palden Thondup Namgyal was to be the last king of Sikkim as a protectorate state under India.
  • By 1973, both the country and their marriage were crumbling; soon Sikkim was annexed by India.
  • Five months after the takeover of Sikkim had begun, Cooke returned to the United States with her two children and stepdaughter to enroll them in schools in New York City.
  • Cooke and her husband divorced in 1980; Namgyal died of cancer in 1982.Cooke wrote an autobiography, Time Change (Simon & Schuster 1981) and began a career as a lecturer, book critic, and magazine contributor, later becoming an urban historian.
  • In her new life as a student of New York City, Cooke published Seeing New York (Temple University Press 1995); worked as a newspaper columnist (Daily News); and taught at Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Birch Wathen, a New York City private school.

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