Jason Brooke (centre) showing Abang Johari (right) around the Brooke Gallery.
KUCHING: For 100 years, Sarawak was ruled as an independent kingdom by a succession of White Rajahs from the Brooke family. Starting with James Brooke in 1841, it passed on to his nephew Charles Brooke and finally to Charles’ son Charles Vyner Brooke until the Japanese invaded Sarawak during the Second World War in 1941.
Now the history and legacy of the Brooke era can be seen in the newly-opened Brooke Gallery at Fort Margherita in Kuching.
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