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Sultan Abdul Halim of Kedah

Abdul Halim
Yang di-Pertuan Agong V and XIV
Sultan of Kedah
Sultan Abdul Halim.jpg
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
Prime Ministers
Sultan of Kedah
Reign 15 July 1958 – present
Installation 20 February 1959
Predecessor Badlishah
Chief Ministers
Born (1927-11-28) 28 November 1927 (age 89)
Anak Bukit, Alor Setar, Kedah, British Malaya
(now Malaysia)
Spouse Sultanah Bahiyah (1956–2003)
Sultanah Haminah (1975–present)
Issue
Detail
Tunku Putri Intan Safinaz
Tunku Soraya
Tunku Sarina
Full name
Tunku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah
Father Badlishah
Mother Tunku Sofiah binti Tunku Mahmud
Religion Sunni Islam
Full name
Tunku Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah
Styles of
Abdul Halim
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.


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