Tengku Intan Zaharah

Tengku Intan Zaharah
4th Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia
Tengku Ampuan Tua of Terengganu
Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia
Tenure 21 September 1965 – 20 September 1970
Predecessor Tengku Budriah
Successor Tuanku Bahiyah
Tengku Ampuan of Terengganu
Tenure 6 June 1949 – 20 September 1979
Successor Tengku Ampuan Bariah
Born (1928-04-13)13 April 1928
Singapore
Died 24 January 2015(2015-01-24) (aged 86)
Pantai Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Burial 25 January 2015
Abidin Mosque, Kuala Terengganu, Terengganu, Malaysia
Spouse Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu (m. 1944-1979)
Father Tengku Hitam Omar bin Tengku Muda Osman
Mother Raja Zainab Raja Alang
Religion Sunni Islam

Tengku Intan Zaharah binti Tengku Hitam Omar (13 April 1928 – 24 January 2015) was the Tengku Ampuan Tua of Terengganu.[1] She was formerly the Tengku Ampuan (Queen) of Terengganu from 1945 to 1979. She also served as the fourth Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia from 1965 to 1970.

Early life

Tengku Intan was born in Singapore on 13 April 1928. Her father, Tengku Setia Raja Terengganu Tengku Hitam Omar, was a member of the Singapore (Johor Bendahara Horeh) royal family, serving in the Terengganu State Civil Service as the State Secretary of Terengganu; he was exiled since the death of the last Sultan of Singapore, Alauddin Alam Shah, in 1897. Her mother was Raja Zainab binti Raja Alang (second wife of her father).

Tengku Intan received her education at the Malay School in Telok Kurau and Katong Convent, Singapore.

Royal Life

Tengku Intan married Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III (then Tengku Paduka Raja of Terengganu) on 3 April 1944 as his second wife. She had no children with him.

On 5 November 1945 the Terengganu State Council of thirteen members announced the dismissal of Sultan Ali Shah and the appointment of Tengku Ismail as the fifteenth Sultan of Terengganu. Tengku Ismail became known as Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah and was installed on 6 June 1949 at Istana Maziah, Kuala Terengganu.[2]

Accordingly, Tengku Intan Zaharah became Tengku Ampuan (Queen) of Terengganu. Tengku Intan served as Raja Permaisuri Agong during her husband's reign as the fourth Yang di-Pertuan Agong or King of Malaysia.

In 1979, upon her husband's death she was created Tengku Ampuan Besar (Dowager Queen) of Terengganu. In 1998, on the death of her stepson, Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, she became Tengku Ampuan Tua (Grand Dowanger Queen) of Terengganu.[3]

Deaths

Tengku Intan died on 24 January 2015 at 3:30 pm in Hospital Pantai, Kuala Lumpur due to pneumonia. She was 86 years old. Her body was brought back to Terengganu and was laid to rest beside her husband grave, Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah at the Royal Mausoleum near Abidin Mosque, Kuala Terengganu.

Titles, styles and honours

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Honours[4]

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Foreign honours

See also

References

  1. ↑ Finestone, Jeffrey and Shaharil Talib (1994) Op Cit
  2. ↑ Buyong Adil Op Cit p205
  3. ↑ Finestone, Jeffrey and Shaharil Talib (1994) Op Cit
  4. ↑ Royal Ark
  5. ↑ Royal Ark
  6. ↑ Angelfire
Regnal titles
Preceded by
Tengku Budriah
(Raja Perempuan of Perlis)		 Raja Permaisuri Agong
(Queen of Malaysia) 		Succeeded by
Tuanku Bahiyah
(Sultanah of Kedah)
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