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James Brooke Rajah of Sarawak |
His lovers were:
1) Badruddin.
a Sarawak prince
2) Charles T. C. Grant.
"...After Badrudin's death, and above all others, Brooke loved Charles ('Doddy') Grant (grandson of the seventh Earl of Elgin), who was recruited in 1848 when he was sixteen. Their affection was mutual." (Hyam, 1990, p. 45)
Not the Marrying Kind: "...The first raja, James Brooke (1803-1868), devoted his entire life to the interests of Sarawak and its peoples. He never married, although there was an early broken engagement and an illegitimate son, Reuben George Brooke. James had been wounded in the Burma War in 1825. Opinions differ as to whether the wound was in the lung or in the testicles. In view of the acknowledgement in his will of a son born after this event, it would certainly seem that Brooke was not rendered impotent. The existence of the son was kept secret for many years. It is possible that the story of James Brooke's emasculation may have given currency to explain his embarrassingly total lack of physical interest in women...." (Hyam, 1990, p. 44)
Boy Proteges: "...He showed, however, great affection for his nephews, one of whom he took with him to Sarawak in 1840. The younger nephew(who eventually succeeded him) he doted upon for some years... He acquired other boy proteges all over the place. He was compulsively drawn to thirteen-year-old midshipmen...In 1843 he befriended the thirteen-year-old great nephew of the Bishop of Calcutta... (Hyam: 44)
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| Charles, 2nd Rajah of Sarawak |
2nd Rajah of Sarawak.
(1829-1917)
(1829-1917)
He married, in 1869, Margaret Alice Lili de Windt.
" . . . Charles Johnson Brooke (1829-1917), the second white raja (succeeding in 1868), was potent enough with women, but remarkably cold and indifferent towards his wife, Margaret, whom he married, when he was forty. Their first three children died of cholera, but there were three surviving sons. The marriage ended when he destroyed his wife's pet doves and served them in a pie for supper. . . ." (Hyam: 45)
" . . . Charles Johnson Brooke (1829-1917), the second white raja (succeeding in 1868), was potent enough with women, but remarkably cold and indifferent towards his wife, Margaret, whom he married, when he was forty. Their first three children died of cholera, but there were three surviving sons. The marriage ended when he destroyed his wife's pet doves and served them in a pie for supper. . . ." (Hyam: 45)
"It has always been known that Charles Brooke had many mistresses and several half-caste children. In his most recent book, historian Colin Crisswell reports that numerous families in the Batang Lupar district trace their descent from Rajah Charles, while another historian, Robert Pringle, quotes a contemporary source noting that 'the only man in Sarawak who is any good as an administrator is one of the Rajah's illegitimate sons by a native mother'. . . ." (Pybus: 133)
Prescription for a Man's Efficiency: " . . . He reckoned that marriage lost an officer ninety-nine per cent of his efficiency; compliant local mistresses (such as he himself had taken as a young man), not burdensome European wives, was his prescription. Only five women were present when he entertained the entire European community of Sarawak to a jubilee dinner in 1887. . . ." (Hyam: 45)
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Charles Brooke 2nd Rajah of Sarawak |
His lover was:
Dayang Mastiah.
Wife Testifies He's Not Good in Bed: "...The third raja, Vyner Brooke (1874-1963), was a compulsive womaniser and, significantly perhaps, much the least efficient of the three white rajas, thus giving point to his father's dictum. He too had his marital troubles. He lived apart from his wife for the second half of their marriage, although maintaining friendly discussions with her about his endless stream of mistresses. And we have his wife's testimony that he was 'not good in bed'; to quote her own devastating worlds, 'he made love just as he played golf --- in a nervous unimaginative flurry'. (Hyam, 1990, p. 45)
Wife and Mistresses on Friendly Terms.
"Rajah Vyner himself found the local women hard to resist, and he had a string of mistresses, several ofwhom came to live with the family, to be looked on by the Brooke daughters as elder sisters. Ranee Sylvia, Elizabeth recalled, 'liked most of Daddy's mistresses enormously. Some even became her greatest friends. And those she did not like, Daddy threw out. As I can recall, she only forced him to discard three -- one who was a gold-digger, one who was a thundering bore and the other became she was a nymphomaniac.'..." (Telegraph)
(1849-1936)
1) Ronald Gower (Lord) (1845-1916)
Scottish aristocrat, politician, sculptor & writer
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William Morton Fullerton |
2) William Morton Fullerton (1865-1952)
American journalist, author & foreign correspondent
"Leon Edel, in his one volume life of Henry James, on Fullerton: 'Singularly attaching . . . a dashing well-tailored man with large Victoria moustaches and languid eyes, a bright flowr in his button hole, and the style of a 'masher'. He had considerable sexual versatility. . . ." (The Clog)
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William Morton Fullerton |
"After Harvard, where he was intimate with George Santayana and close to Bernard Berenson, he moved to London where he befriended the writer and socialite Hamilton Aide and became the lover of the notorious Lord Ronald Gower, sculptor and model for Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray. There was a long affair with the Ranee of Sarawak, Margaret Brooke, a short marriage to a Parisian woman who later blackmailed him (she was covertly paid off by Henry James and Edith Wharton), and a short but very intense love affair with Wharton. . . The fling with Edith Wharton was a remarkable episode, in which one suspects the 46 year old novelist had her first fully realized sexual relations, the intensity of which led to the writing of the pornographic short story Beatrice Palmato, published in Lewis's biography. . . ." (The Clog)
Sexual favours for a throne?
: "She would divide the rest of her life between battling to ensure that her daughters succeeded to the throne instead of Anthony and bestowing her sexual favours upon anyone she happened to find attractive. In this she was no worse that her husband, Vyner, who made no effort to conceal his liaisons with various Sarawakian mistresses. But in a European women --- and a Viscount's daughter to boot --- such behaviour was regarded as shocking. Not that this was likely to bother Sylvia." (Daily Mail)
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