The Moon Princess : Memories of the Shan States

Narrated by the eldest daughter of Sao Shwe Thaike, The Moon Princess is both an autobiography and at the same time provides a fascinating memoir of her father who, in 1948, became first President of the Union of Burma… troubled years after Burma’s independence and the military takeover in 1962. It is a personal account of a family caught up in political turmoil which led to the loss of a brother and a father, the first during the coup and the latter, in military custody. Studying at Cambridge, Sanda, met her English husband, Peter Simms and later they lived in Rangoon against a background of political upheaval until the end of democratic rule forced them to leave their home and their country, never to return.
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