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Tunku Puan Zanariah

Zanariah
Raja Permaisuri Agong VIII
Tunku Puan of Johor
Raja Permaisuri Agong
Tenure 26 April 1984 – 25 April 1989
Installation 15 November 1984
Predecessor Tengku Afzan
Successor Tuanku Bainun
Sultanah of Johor
Tenure 11 May 1981 – 22 January 2010
Predecessor Tunku Puan Nora
Successor Permaisuri Raja Zarith Sofiah
Born (1940-07-05) 5 July 1940 (age 76)
Pasir Mas, Kelantan
Spouse Sultan Iskandar
Issue Tunku Mariam
Tunku Norani
Tunku Maimunah Ismailiah
Tunku Abdul Majid
Tunku Muna Najiah
Tunku Aminah Kalsom
Full name
Tengku Zanariah binti Tengku Ahmad (as birth)
Father Tengku Ahmad (Tengku Panglima Raja of Kelantan)
Religion Sunni Islam
Full name
Tengku Zanariah binti Tengku Ahmad (as birth)

HRH Sultan Ibrahim Ismail, The Sultan
HRH Raja Zarith Sofiah of Perak, Permaisuri

HH Enche' Besar Kalsom Abdullah, Sultan's mother

HRH Tunku Puan Zanariah of Kelantan, Sultan Iskandar's second wife

Tunku Puan Zanariah (Tengku Zanariah binti Almarhum Tengku Ahmad; born 5 July 1940) is the second wife of Sultan Iskandar of Johor from their marriage in 1961 until his death in 2010. She served as Raja Permaisuri Agong between 1984 and 1989.

Her sister, Tengku Nora, was married to her father-in-law, Sultan Ismail.

Born on 5 July 1940, in Dusun Green Palace, Pasir Mas, Kelantan, Tengku Zanariah is the seventh child of HRH Tengku Panglima Raja Kelantan from among nine siblings. She comes from the Kelantan royal family. Her father, the late Tengku Panglima Raja Ahmad was a son of HRH Al-Marhum Tengku Temenggong Kelantan Tengku Abdul Ja'far Ibni HM Long Senik Mulut Merah (Sultan Muhammad II).

Tengku Zanariah was enrolled into Sultanah Zainab School, Kelantan an elementary school where she studied from 1946 to 1949. Between 1950 and 1952 she studied at the Convent Bukit Nanas in Kuala Lumpur before returning to Kelantan where she continued her studies at Sultan Ibrahim School, Pasir Mas. With the encouragement of her father and her own desire to equip herself for the future, she left for England in 1954 to further her studies at the Upper Chime School, Isle of Wight.

While studying in England, Tengku Zanariah met Tunku Iskandar (later Sultan Iskandar) who was also studying there. They later married in 1961, and became the mother of Tunku Iskandar's six children.

Her husband became Sultan of Johor in 1981. Although she was known as Sultanah, she was never formally crowned.

In 1982, Tunku Zanariah sponsored and established the Majlis Wanita Negeri Johor or MAWAR (the Women's Council of Johor), which organises various religious activities such as the celebration of the Prophet’s birthday at its headquarters at Sungai Cat Road in Johor Bahru. MAWAR also collected donations for distribution among flood victims in Johor as well as the less fortunate and the needy.


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