On 20 March 1963, Hope Cooke, an American Anglican, married the Crown Prince of Sikkim in a Buddhist monastery. Although she was dropped from the Social Register, the marriage was enthusiastically reported in National Geographic magazine; and The New Yorker followed the royal couple on one of their yearly trips to America.
On 20 March 1963, Hope Cooke, an American Anglican, married the Crown Prince of Sikkim in a Buddhist monastery. Although she was dropped from the Social Register, the marriage was enthusiastically reported in National Geographic magazine; and The New Yorker followed the royal couple on one of their yearly trips to America.
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