EASTERN ROMANCE
SCOTTISH GIRL MARRIES SULTAN. PICTURESQUE CEREMONY. (U.P.A. by Elec. TeL* Copyright.; (Received Nov. 19. •li pirn.) *• SINGAPORE. Nov. 19, Tho romance associated . with the Sultan (Sir Ibrahim) of Jaliore and Miss Helen Wilson, a daughter of » Kilmarnock (Scotland) business man, was consummated by a picturesque and magnificent spectacle at the Sultan’s Palace, where the glittering and graceful figure of the former wife of a young doctor practising in her present husband’s domain, became Sultana over 350,001) Malay and Chinese subjects. The Sultana is a beautiful blonde, and showed traces of nervousness when seated on tho throne, surrounded by the splendour of the wealthy State. Slid wus the cynosure of all eyes and affirmed her readiness to wear the Crown of Permisuri and Jaliore and follow the Malay customs aud religious -usages. The Sultan, who is 58, has visited Australia, and is famed here as a big game shot, an expert rubber planter and trains his own racehorses and ponies.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 11492, 20 November 1931, Page 4
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