caption children birth_place nationality title birth_date term spouse image article_title name occupation
hope photograph by alice kandell namgyal , queen of sikkim in 1971 , palden namgyal hope , mrs. yep wangyal tobden san francisco , united states united states gyalmo -lrb- king -rrb- of sikkim -lrb- queen consort -rrb- of the 12th chogyal 24 june 1940 1963 -- 1975 palden 1980 ; divorced -rrb- mike wallace -lrb- divorced -rrb- thondup namgyal -lrb- march 20 , 1963 -- hope .30180 -rrb- . jpg cooke , queen of sikkim -lrb- loc ppmsca hope cooke
 hope cooke author , lecturer
hope cooke

hope cooke -lrb- born june 24 , 1940 -rrb- is an american woman who was the `` gyalmo '' -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- queen consort -rrb- of the 12th chogyal -lrb- king -rrb- of sikkim -lrb- palden thondup namgyal -rrb- .
their wedding took place in march 1963 .
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 -lrb- simon & schuster 1981 -rrb- 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 -lrb- temple university press 1995 -rrb- ; worked as a newspaper columnist -lrb- `` daily news '' -rrb- ; taught at yale university , sarah lawrence college , and birch wathen , a new york city private school .
