1938-04-18 — Page 5

THE CHINA MAIL. APRIL 18, 1938.:

MALAYAN SULTAN TELLS HIS SCOTTISH WIFE: "GET OUT"

London, March 30. the Riviera, fate brought the Sultan Four times the, 6ft. 6in. multi-and beautiful fair-haired Mrs. Wil- millionaire Sultan of Johore re son together again. He realised peated the Malayan word Talak he had loved her since their youth, ("Get out") to his handsome and wooed her ardently with huge Scots wife and according to the presents and parties. But she re- Mahommedan faith, in which they fused to be impressed were married at Woking Mosque

"She reminded him that he had 7 years ago, they were divorced. already had four wives, to whom Thus, it was revealed yesterday, he was entitled, and that she was ended one of the most romantic 40 with a 14-years-old daughter; marriages of East and West.

Ruler of 7,000 square miles of the Malayan Peninsula and so rich that he gave $500,000 towards the the new Singapore base, the Sultan has shot more tiger and wild buf- falo on foot than any man living. He visits London every summer.

and that another marriage at their Only age might seem ridiculous. after my repeated pleas did Helen accept the Sultan's proposal.

£100,000 PALACE

"The historic Crown jewels of Johore were heaped on her, In Johore a £100,000 palce was built for her.

He. in his gorgeous Oriental state robes, and his Sultana-the "As Sultana the former doctor's former Mrs. William Wilson, widow wife ûgured with the Sultan on the of a Glasgow doctor-in the famous postage stamps. No other Eas- Johore jewels, were two of the tern prince had previously accord- most resplendent figures in theed this honour to his European Coronation procession.

consori. He could refuse her nothing.

· VALID IN BRITISH LAW Besides the ceremony at Woking "She now writes to me that she they were married at Prince's-row has left the Sultan for good as she Register Office, Kensington.

can no longer face the future with And so, despite the Malayan pro-him. She supposes her life will ceedings, the marriage still remains turn out all right, but reflects. 'I valid in British law. It is antici- don't know.. In future, she says, She pated that steps to dissolve it will she will be 'Lady Torahim." be taken out on the Sultana's arri- will receive a comparatively small val in England in the summer. allowance and will keep only minor

jewels."

Among her relatives in Great Britain are her blonde actress Miss Eleanore Wilson, who is re- daughter by her first marriage, Miss hearsing at the Wyndham Repor- Eleanore Wilson, aged 22, her niece, tory Theatre, Edinburgh, said: Miss Catherine Robertson, of Whi-"The suggestion that my tecraigs, Glasgow, who spent three months in Johore at the end of last year; and Mr. H. Lumsden, of Glas- gow, her brother-in-law.

mother has been divorced under Mahomme- dan law is news to me. neither confirm nor deny it.”

I can

Miss Robertson told me: "During my holiday in Johore the Sultand and my aunt were very happy and I had a magnificent time with them."

HER £100,000 Palace The beginning and the end of the romance were described to me last night by a close friend of the Sultan who has known him for 25 Another relative said: “Although years and been in regular corres- the divorce carries no weight- in pondence with him and his wife. British law, under Mahommedan "Helen Wilson first visited law the Sultan and Sultana are no Johore on her honeymoon with her longer husband and wife. This first husband, Dr. William Wilson, form of divorce is very simple and whose father was state physician is really carried out by declaration to the present Sultan's father," before two witnesses. said the friend.

"The Sultana and her husband

"Years later she and Dr. Wilson often had little tiffs regarding revisited Johore, to recapture the dancing. The Sultana was very glamour of the past, but without fond of it, but he did not enjoy success. Soon their marriage was dancing. dissolved, and two years later Dr. Wilson died

"Eventually, amid the gaiety of kissed her good-bye."

"The parting was friendly. He travelled with her to the liner and

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