Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah | |||||||||
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Yang di-Pertuan Agong XI Sultan of Selangor |
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Yang di-Pertuan Agong | |||||||||
Reign | 26 April 1999 – 21 November 2001 | ||||||||
Installation | 23 September 1999 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Jaafar of Negeri Sembilan | ||||||||
Successor | Sirajuddin of Perlis | ||||||||
Sultan of Selangor | |||||||||
Reign | 3 September 1960 – 21 November 2001 | ||||||||
Coronation | 28 June 1961 | ||||||||
Predecessor | Hisamuddin Alam Shah of Selangor | ||||||||
Successor | Sharafuddin Idris Shah of Selangor | ||||||||
Born |
Istana Bandar Temasha, Jugra, Kuala Langat, Selangor, Federated Malay States, British Malaya |
8 March 1926||||||||
Died | 21 November 2001 Hospital Gleanagle, Kuala Lumpur |
(aged 75)||||||||
Burial | 22 November 2001 Sultan Sulaiman Mosque, Royal Mausoleum, Klang |
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Spouse |
Raja Nur Saidatul-Ihsan, Paduka Bonda Raja (m.1943; div. 1946) Che' Mahiran (div. 1954) Sharifa Salmah (m.1961; div. 1962) Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (died. 1993) Permaisuri Siti Aishah |
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Issue | Tengku Nor Halija Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah Tengku Sofiah Tengku Sulaiman Shah Tengku Zahariah Tengku Fatimah Tengku Abdul Samad Tengku Arafiah Tengku Aishah Tengku Ahmad Shah Tengku Nor Marina Tengku Nor Zehan |
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House | House of Daeng Chelak | ||||||||
Father | Sultan Hishamuddin Alam Shah Ibni Al-marhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah | ||||||||
Mother | Tengku Ampuan Jemaah Binti Al-Marhum Raja Ahmad | ||||||||
Religion | Sunni Islam |
Full name | |
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Tengku Abdul Aziz Shah ibni Tengku Alam Shah | |
Regnal name | |
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Alhaj ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Alhaj |
Styles of Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah |
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Reference style | His Royal Highness |
Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
Alternative style | Sir |
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Alhaj Ibni Almarhum Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Alhaj (8 March 1926 – 21 November 2001) was the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and eighth Sultan of Selangor.
Born Tengku Abdul Aziz Shah on 8 March 1926 at Istana Bandar Temasya, Kuala Langat, he is the eldest son of Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah by his royal consort Tengku Ampuan Raja Jemaah binti Raja Ahmad.
He received his early education at the Pengkalan Batu Malay School in Klang in 1934. In 1936, he furthered his studies at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar until 1941 when World War II began. After World War II, he went to England in 1947 and studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London for two years.
Upon his return from the United Kingdom, he served with the Civil Service Department as a Trainee Officer with the Selangor Survey Department. He later served as an Inspector of Schools for eight years.
In 1952, he attended a short-term course at the Malay Military Troop in Port Dickson for six months and was commissioned with the Queen Commission in the rank of captain. Thereafter, he was promoted to the rank of major.
Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah married at least four wives.
His first wife and cousin, Raja Nur Saidatul Ihsan binti Al Marhum Tengku Bendahara Tengku Badar, whom he later divorced, bore:
Che Maheram binti Muhammad Rais, his second wife, bore him:
His royal consort, Tengku Ampuan Rahimah binti Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah of the Sultanate of Langkat royal family in Sumatra died in 1993 before his election as Yang di-Pertuan Agong. She was the mother of:
His last wife, commoner Tuanku Siti Aishah binti Abdul Rahman, served as his Raja Permaisuri Agong. Being fifty years younger than him, she was also the youngest ever occupant of that office – only 29 at her succession to the throne.