Abdul Halim | |||||
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Yang di-Pertuan Agong V and XIV Sultan of Kedah |
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Yang di-Pertuan Agong | |||||
Reign | 13 December 2011 – 12 December 2016 | ||||
Installation | 11 April 2012 | ||||
Predecessor | Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu | ||||
Successor | Muhammad V of Kelantan | ||||
Prime Ministers | Najib Razak | ||||
Reign | 21 September 1970 – 20 September 1975 | ||||
Installation | 20 February 1971 | ||||
Predecessor | Ismail Nasiruddin of Terengganu | ||||
Successor | Sultan Yahya Petra | ||||
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Sultan of Kedah | |||||
Reign | 15 July 1958 – present | ||||
Installation | 20 February 1959 | ||||
Predecessor | Badlishah | ||||
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Born |
Anak Bukit, Alor Setar, Kedah, British Malaya (now Malaysia) |
28 November 1927 ||||
Spouse |
Sultanah Bahiyah (1956–2003) Sultanah Haminah (1975–present) |
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Tunku Putri Intan Safinaz Tunku Soraya Tunku Sarina |
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Father | Badlishah | ||||
Mother | Tunku Sofiah binti Tunku Mahmud | ||||
Religion | Sunni Islam |
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Tunku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah |
Kedah Royal Family |
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HRH Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
HH Tunku Mahmud Sallehuddin, Raja Muda
HH Tunku Abdul Hamid Thani, Tunku Laksamana |
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Styles of Abdul Halim |
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Reference style | His Royal Highness |
Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
Alternative style | Tuanku |
HRH Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah
HRH Sultanah Haminah Hamidun
HH Tunku Mahmud Sallehuddin, Raja Muda
HH Tengku Maliha of Kelantan, Raja Puan Muda
HH Tunku Abdul Hamid Thani, Tunku Laksamana
Tuanku Abdul Halim ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, DMN GCB KStJ (born 28 November 1927) is the current Sultan of Kedah, reigning since 1958. He served as the fifth Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia from 1970 to 1975, and as the 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong from 2011 to 2016. He is the first person to reign as Yang di-Pertuan Agong twice, as well as the oldest elected to the office. He is also the second longest-reigning living monarch in the world and the second-oldest currently reigning monarch after Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
Born at Istana Anak Bukit near Alor Star as Tunku Abdul Halim, he was the second, but eldest surviving son, of Sultan Badlishah (1894-1958; reigned 1943–1958), who later became the 27th Sultan of Kedah. Of Malay and Thai descent, his mother was the Kedah-born princess Tunku Sofiah binti Tunku Mahmud (born 1899), who died in an automobile accident on 28 February 1934. Abdul Halim's maternal grandfather, Tunku Mahmud, was once Raja Muda (heir presumptive) to the throne of Kedah.
He was educated at Alor Merah and Titi Gajah Malay schools and Sultan Abdul Hamid College in Alor Star between 1946 and 1948. He went on to Wadham College, Oxford and obtained a Diploma in Social Science and Public Administration. He subsequently joined the Kedah Administrative Service, serving in the Alor Star district office and later, the state treasury.