 Leland claimed Cooper was the King of the Gypsies in England.Was described as the King of the Gypsies, in an account of a Romani wedding at Baildon in Yorkshire in 1937 between his son Leon Petulengro/ Smith and Illeana Smith both of Colchester Essex.According to the caption of a photograph Xavier Petulengro cut the hands of the couple to mingle their blood during the ceremony.