A retired Welsh coal miner who claims to be related to Malaysian royalty argues that a contemporary DNA test will prove his claim beyond a reasonable doubt.
Keith Williams, 71, was adopted and currently resides in Carmarthenshire, but he is adamant that he is the 33rd Sultan of Perak’s firstborn son who was not his biological father.
He worries that he won’t get closure in time and believes a DNA test would support his ludicrous assertion.
The father of three maintains he doesn’t care about money or titles and is yearning for information about his biological father and family.
Elizabeth Rosa, his birth mother, was only 17 years old when she became pregnant. She met Idris Iskandar Al-Mutawakkil Alallahi Shah, who was studying in the UK at the time, while she was working as a trainee nurse in Carshalton, Surrey.
In order to avoid any unwelcome scandal, she returned to Swansea after learning she was pregnant and gave the Sultan and him up for adoption.
By the time the father-of-three found out what had happened it was too late, as his father died of a heart attack in 1984.
Keith Williams, 71, of South Wales (pictured) believes he is the firstborn illegitimate son of the 33rd Sultan of the Malaysian state of Perak
Mr Williams’s father was Idris Iskandar Al-Mutawakkil Alallahi Shah, the 33rd Sultan of the Malaysian state of Perak (pictured). He died in 1984
Mr. Williams traveled to Malaysia and saw his half-sister Ku Ess (the two were seen together in 2016), but he claims the family has stopped responding to his communications.
He insists that all he wants to do is “get to know them” and that he views the family in Perak as being part of his own family.
We all share the same father, so he said to The Mirror: “I just don’t get why they wouldn’t want to meet me and accept me into the family.
“I’m confident that my father was aware of me.
‘I know it’s true but now DNA tests have come on so much I will be able to prove with absolute certainly for anyone who doubts me.’
Pictured is the hilltop palace of Istana Iskandariah in Malaysia. It was the home of Keith Williams’s father the 33rd Sultan of Perak before he died in 1984
When the current Sultan of Perak Nazrin Shah dies, he will be replaced by Mr Williams’s estranged younger brother.
He has been to Malaysia to visit his father’s tomb, which is where he met his half sister Ku Ess.
But he says, they don’t even pick up the phone and his bid to claim Malaysian citizenship has been ignored.
Mr Williams was adopted as a two-year-old and had no idea about his bloodline 6,000 miles away.
He said after he found out: ‘When I was 13 my mother told me I was adopted. I’d never given it a thought. I never imagined I was related to a royal family from the other side of the world.
‘It’s like a story from a Disney film, and if someone had told you this story in the café or by the bar you’d tell them to get out.’
He traced his mother Elizabeth Rosa to Peterborough, which is where she told him about his royal connections.
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