Hope Cooke is an American woman who was the Gyalmo of the 12th Chogyal of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal. Their wedding took place in March 1963. She was styled Her Highness Hope La, the Gyalmo of Sikkim.
Cooke was born in San Francisco, to an IrishAmerican father, John J. Cooke, a flight instructor, and Hope Noyes, an amateur pilot. She was raised in the Episcopal Church. Her mother, Hope Noyes, died in January 1942 at agewhen the plane she was flying solo crashed.
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