A view of the city skyline overlooking Kampong Glam, the Muslim quarter, in Singapore October 2, 2020. REUTERS/Edgar Su
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - In the modern republic of Singapore, several seemingly ordinary people working in offices or driving taxis can claim to be of royal blood, descendants of a 19th century monarch who ceded control of the Southeast Asian island to the British.
But few residents in one of the world's most cosmopolitan cities are even aware of this lineage, a sore point with Tengku, or Prince, Shawal, acclaimed by some members of his family as 'head of the house of Singapore'.
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