A London pickle maker was crowned king of a breakaway state in China
He founded mosques in Peckham and Dulwich, edited Muslim journals, and once converted a biscuit heiress to Islam aboard a chartered airliner over the English Channel. Then, in the early 1930s, he was offered a throne. Muslim rebellions had broken the Chinese government's grip on Xinjiang, and several short-lived Islamic states sprang up there.
- ▪He founded mosques in Peckham and Dulwich, edited Muslim journals, and once converted a biscuit heiress to Islam aboard a chartered airliner over the English Channel.
- ▪Then, in the early 1930s, he was offered a throne.
- ▪Muslim rebellions had broken the Chinese government's grip on Xinjiang, and several short-lived Islamic states sprang up there.
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| Publication time | Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:30:00 +0000 |
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A London pickle maker was crowned king of a breakaway state in China Ellsworth Toohey 5:30 am Wed Jul 29, 2026 Khalid Sheldrake — Radosław Botev / CC BY 3.0 PL (via Wikimedia Commons) Bertram "Bertie" Sheldrake ran his family's pickle factory in southeast London, converted to Islam as a teenager in 1903, and took the name Khalid. He founded mosques in Peckham and Dulwich, edited Muslim journals, and once converted a biscuit heiress to Islam aboard a chartered airliner over the English Channel. Then, in the early 1930s, he was offered a throne. Muslim rebellions had broken the Chinese government's grip on Xinjiang, and several short-lived Islamic states sprang up there. In 1933 a delegation from one of them visited Sheldrake's home in Forest Hill and invited him to be their king.
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