DETERMINED TO WED
WRESTLER AND RAJAH'S
DAUGHTER
LONDON, November 1.
"I have. always been a fighter. This is only another fight.- I am not pinned down yet," said Bob Gregory, aged 25. middleweight catch-as-catch-can champion of Europe and all-in wrestler, declaring his determination to marry Miss Valarie Brooke, Princess Baba, aged 21, daughter of the Rajah of Sarawak, despite parental opposition.
"Both the "Ranee and the Rajah oppose the wedding," said a member of the Ranee's household. "The Rajah has cabled intimating that he will dis^ inherit his daughter If she disobeys hit wishes." . — >■-■'
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 107, 2 November 1937, Page 9
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