I have done almost everything in life except two things: I have never had a son, and I have never come down in a parachute. — Sylvia Brett (image via The Bodleian Library) Born an English aristocrat, fashioned into worldwide royalty. After dating London playboys, daredevil pilots and even Hollywood star Erroll Flynn, she met her future husband at a neighbor's house party: Charles Vyner, the White Rajah of Sarawak. At 26, she married the heir to the White Raja rule in Borneo, gleefully claiming her title of Ranee and secretly preparing for a life of her own political ambitions. Her own brother called her a "female Iago."
A Woman to Know: Sylvia Brooke
A Woman to Know: Sylvia Brooke
A Woman to Know: Sylvia Brooke
I have done almost everything in life except two things: I have never had a son, and I have never come down in a parachute. — Sylvia Brett (image via The Bodleian Library) Born an English aristocrat, fashioned into worldwide royalty. After dating London playboys, daredevil pilots and even Hollywood star Erroll Flynn, she met her future husband at a neighbor's house party: Charles Vyner, the White Rajah of Sarawak. At 26, she married the heir to the White Raja rule in Borneo, gleefully claiming her title of Ranee and secretly preparing for a life of her own political ambitions. Her own brother called her a "female Iago."