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388:"A cabaret-girl-Sultana the sahibs considered quite impossible. Social royalists, they ganged up and put moral pressure on the precedent-breaking Sultan by unanimously refusing his invitations, although Miss Hill was properly chaperoned at the palace by her mother. The Sultan had his revenge, by ordering the sahibs off his golf course, their children away from his bandstand" ". . . When Singapore's British society behaved stuffily toward his show-girl fiancee, the Sultan struck back by firing all the Britons in his service and planting shrubs on the fairways and greens of the golf course used by the sahibs, which was on his property."
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to Genoa, because she kept the Sultan "cheered and tranquil". She had performed an
African dance for the Sultan, and accompanied him on a two-hour drive along the coast. Although the Sultan had previously announced an engagement in Malaya, the lawyer now said that he would inform the Press if and when any marriage were to occur. Such an engagement was not unique in east Kent in the 1930s. George Henry Milles-Lade, 4th
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Mayfair Court first. In spite of the cancellation of the engagement in 1938, the Sultan continued to fund Mayfair Court and the associated servants' quarters for her. It has also been suggested that the Sultan (via Cissie) did not build the associated two houses for servants, but built them to claim the land and to prevent unsightly building by neighbours next door.
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diamond engagement ring. By May 1938 the young girl from Kent was back in
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Hyacinth, Queensbridge Drive, Herne Bay. She trained as a dancer and joined the Grosvenor House cabaret, but has also
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flags in London, and it was "love at first sight". He courted her for twelve days and during this time he was visiting Cissie's parents to give his condolences â and perhaps to retrieve some jewellery that he had given to Cissie. On 6 November 1940, less than a month after Cissie's death, the Sultan
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to account for the Hill family's rise in fortune and for the building of
Mayfair Court by a resting dancer in 1934. The publicity embarrassed the family, and Cissie's mother Florence Hill told a Press reporter that "Lydia" had gone into hiding under medical care due to shock at public attitudes, and
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where he was staying, because he could do nothing without the permission of the
British Government, and because the Sultan was ill: "He nearly died recently in Johore", having "become ill with heart trouble and gout". The lawyer had been instructed to take his wife and daughter and accompany Cissie
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Mayfair Court and stole ÂŖ5,000-worth of jewellery from Cissie's bedroom; this brought the affair with the Sultan into the public eye. Descriptions of the stolen items were published, and it was disclosed that two of them were inscribed, "With all my love, S.I."
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Florence until her death in 1973. For some of that time, for example in 1959 and 1969, her father George Hill lived there too. The house was unoccupied in 1974 after Florence's death. Cissie's sister and her husband
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in London, and is said to have renewed the relationship with Cissie then, divorced his Scottish wife Helen nÊe Wilson in March 1938, and sailed home in the same month to Singapore and Johor with his new companion and her mother. As they left England it was observed that Cissie was wearing a large
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by Roland St John Braddell (1880â1966), then legal adviser in Malaya. He said: "As far as I am concerned, I should love to see the Sultan of Johore married to this most charming lady, Miss Lydia Hill." He added that the Sultan could not marry at present because there was no mosque in
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as the coffin was borne into the church. There were many mourners including the Sultan at the church and cemetery, and a large number of floral tributes. The Sultan's wreath was "laid in the grave with the coffin". The interment was at Herne Bay Cemetery at
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and was started in 1934 and completed in 1935. Council archives have been lost and the architect is not known. A firm called John Howell & Son was contracted for the extension, greenhouse and air-raid shelter during the 1930s, but it was not
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lived at Mayfair Court in 1945, but moved to one of the associated houses in the 1950s (no.141) and to the other in the 1960s (no.139) until the sister left shortly after her husband's death in 1967; she died in 2005.
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And we who have lived with and loved her / Whose passing has caused us tears / Will cherish her memory for ever / Down through the passing years."
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that they knew no maharajah. It is not known whether the pressure of this publicity incited the Sultan to announce an engagement in May, 1938.
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1991:"Marriages: Marriage of the Sultan of Johore".
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654:Mayfair Court once had a view across to Sheppey
1603:. Herne Bay Library: Unpublished. 20 May 2002.
242:Grosvenor House Hotel where she met the Sultan
1824:World War 2 People's War: Article ID A3677637
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2402:Deaths by German airstrikes during The Blitz
1176:"Glamour girl and Sultan: engagement likely"
574:girl Marcella Mendl aged 25 who was selling
2253:. Canterbury Cathedral Archives. 1945â1969.
2207:. Canterbury Cathedral Archives. 1945â1975.
2100:. Canterbury Cathedral Archives. 1935â1938.
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246:On 25 June 1934, it was announced in the
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1903:: Gravestone in plot BBR46 with poem by
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1247:Dancers with the Grosvenor House Cabaret
1063:History of the school and its buildings
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146:32 Radigund St: her grandparents' home
2098:Blue Book street directory: Herne Bay
1818:Larkins, Anthony (17 February 2005).
1415:. 6 September 1934. p. 15; col.B
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1995:. 7 November 1940. p. 7; col.B.
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376:by air, presumably on their way to
2025:. 19 December 1903. Archived from
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1397:. 25 June 1934. p. 17; col.B.
1335:Fishpool, John (3 December 2010).
1182:. Melbourne, Victoria. 27 May 1938
579:married Miss Mendl at Caxton Hall
560:Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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1764:Unknown; possibly Herne Bay Press
1277:. Herne Bay Library: unpublished.
1213:"Johore: Mothers & Daughters"
971:Catalogue: ADM 196/165, image 94
1626:"Malaya: shrubs in the fairway"
1534:"Dance girl and sultan romance"
1473:. 3 May 1935. p. 16; col.F
1219:. 8 August 1938. Archived from
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1093:Fishpool, John (August 2010).
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521:I know that my Redeemer liveth
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1632:. 18 May 1959. Archived from
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1938:Herne Bay Cemetery (CT6 7HB)
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485:On 11 October 1940, several
481:Bomb damage, Canterbury 1940
203:Cissie lived here as a child
2392:People from Herne Bay, Kent
2382:20th-century English people
2057:A30yoyo (29 October 2007).
1905:Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
1656:"40 years' reign in Johore"
1065:. Kent County Council. 2010
506:Grave of Lydia Cecilia Hill
101:dancer notable for being a
37:Lydia Cecilia Hill, ca.1938
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129:, paid for by the Sultan.
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1293:"Plenty of Money Now".
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133:Ancestry and early life
2407:People from Canterbury
2387:English female dancers
1899:Herne Bay Cemetery in
1876:"Church bells of Kent"
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2019:"Hastings Chronicle"
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491:Canterbury Cathedral
262:in Park Lane at the
2185:on 27 February 2014
1931:"Canterbury.gov.uk"
1799:on 16 November 2007
1789:"Johore: New Houri"
1743:on 14 November 2011
1155:The Kentish Gazette
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152:Portsea, Portsmouth
2175:"Ashdown WW2 camp"
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1447:. 12 October 1940
1348:978-1-904661-15-3
1249:. 6 February 1937
1223:on 26 August 2010
1104:978-1-904661-14-6
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