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Hope Cooke (born June 24, 1940) is an American woman who was the "Gyalmo" () (Queen Consort) of the 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim (Palden Thondup Namgyal). Their wedding took place in March 1963. She was stiled ''Her Highness'' Hope La, the Gyalmo of Sikkim. 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 USA with her two birth children and step-daughter to put 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''); taught at Yale University, Sarah Lawrence College, and Birch Wathen, a New York City private school.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://himalaya.yale.edu/events/sikkim-film-and-discussion )〕 ==Early life and family== Cooke was born in San Francisco, to an Irish-American father, John J. Cooke, a flight instructor, and Hope Noyes, an amateur pilot. Her mother, Hope Noyes, died in January 1942 at age 25 when the plane she was flying solo crashed.〔("Being a Queen Didn't Quite Work Out, but on This Cooke's Tour Hope Springs Eternal" ), ''People'', March 9, 1981, Vol. 15, No. 9.〕〔(IMDb biography )〕 After her mother's death, Cooke and her half-sister, Harriet Townsend, moved to a New York City apartment across the hall from their maternal grandparents, Helen (Humpstone) and Winchester Noyes, the president of J.H. Winchester & Co., an international shipping brokerage firm. They were raised by a succession of governesses.〔 Her grandfather died when she was 12; her grandmother, three years later. Cooke became the ward of her aunt and uncle, Mary Paul (Noyes) and Selden Chapin, a former US Ambassador to Iran and Peru. She studied at Chapin School, in New York. She attended the Madeira School for three years before finishing high school in Iran.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hope Cooke」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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