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...that the Raja already has a wife & nine children at home in Perlis made no difference. Explained Riam: "We are Moslems, and the Raja is allowed by our religion to take four wives." Nor did it make any difference that the Raja's first wife, the progressively minded Tengku Budriah, should be a Girl Scout commissioner, a badminton, hockey and tennis player, who believes in the emancipation of Moslem women. Moslem custom demanded that she keep a dutiful silence while, 400 yards from her palace, workmen put the finishing touches on a cozy little green house to be occupied...