Salahuddin of Malaysia

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His Royal Highness Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia (King of Malaysia) and Sultan of Selangor
Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj
Reign Sultan of Selangor - 2 September 1960 - 21 November 2001
Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia - 29 April 1999 - 21 November 2001
Coronation 1960
Born 8 March 1926
Kuala Langat, Selangor
Died 21 November 2001
Kuala Lumpur
Predecessor Sultan Hisamuddin
Raja Muda Tengku Idris Shah
Successor Sultan Sharafuddin
Consort Tengku Ampuan Rahimah (died 1993)
Tuanku Siti Aishah
Issue Tengku Nor Halija
Tengku Idris Shah
Tengku Puteri Sofiah
Tengku Sulaiman Shah
Tengku Puteri Zahariah
Tengku Fatimah
Tengku Abdul Samad
Tengku Puteri Arafiah
Tengku Puteri Aishah
Tengku Ahmad Shah
Tengku Puteri Nor Marina
Tengku Puteri Nor Zehan
Father Sultan Hisamuddin
Mother Tengku Ampuan Raja Jemaah

Almarhum Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj (March 8, 1926 - November 21, 2001) was the eleventh Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia and seventh Sultan of Selangor.

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[edit] Birth and early life

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, Tengku Abdul Aziz Shah was born at Istana Bandar Temasya, Kuala Langat. He was educated at the Malay College Kuala Kangsar and the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

[edit] Marriages

Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah married at least four wives.

His first wife and cousin, Raja Nur Saidatul Ihsan binti Tengku Bendahara Badar, whom he later divorced, bore:

  1. Tengku Nor Halija
  2. Tengku Idris Shah, later on became DYMM Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah (current Sultan).
  3. Tengku Puteri Sofiah
  4. Tengku Panglima Diraja Sulaiman Shah
  5. Tengku Puteri Hajah Zahariah (Ku Yah)(former wife of Tan Sri Muhammad Bin Mohd Taib, former Menteri Besar of Selangor)
  6. Tengku Fatimah
  7. Tengku Panglima Besar Abdul Samad
  8. Tengku Puteri Arafiah
  9. Tengku Puteri Aishah

Che Maheram Bt Muhammad Rais, his second wife, bore him:

  1. Tengku Indera Setia Ahmad Shah

His royal consort, Tengku Ampuan Rahimah binti Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah of the Langkat royal family in Sumatra died in 1993 before his election as Yang di-Pertuan Agong. She was the mother of:

  1. Tengku Puteri Nor Marina
  2. Tengku Puteri Nor Zehan

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.

[edit] Sultan

On the demise of his father, Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Sulaiman Shah, Tengku Abdul Aziz Shah became the eighth Sultan of Selangor with the title Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah on 2 September 1960.

Sultan Salahuddin was the Sultan who signed the cession of Kuala Lumpur from Selangor to the Federal Government to form a Federal Territory on February 1, 1974. The Sultan cried after signing Kuala Lumpur as he was very fond and proud of the city, but he did it for the greater good of Malaysia. The Kota Darul Ehsan arch was erected along the Federal Highway at the border of Kuala Lumpur and Selangor to commemorate the event in 1981.

Sultan Salahuddin was a founder of Shah Alam, the new Selangor state capital in 1978. He said that for Selangor to become a modern state, it would need a new state capital as Kuala Lumpur had become a Federal Territory. At that time Klang was the state capital after the cession of KL when the Sultan founded Shah Alam. Many buildings and roads in Shah Alam are named after him.

The cession of Putrajaya to the Federal Government in 2001 to become a Federal Territory also occurred during his reign.

[edit] Yang di-Pertuan Agong

He was the oldest ever to be elected Yang di-Pertuan Agong on April 26, 1999 and installed on 11 September 1999. However, after reigning for two years, he died in office on November 21, 2001 at the Gleneagles Intan Medical Centre in Kuala Lumpur. A well-loved, down-to-earth monarch, he was deeply mourned by Malaysians who attended his state funeral in Klang by the thousands. He was buried in the Royal Mausoleum near Sultan Sulaiman Mosque in Klang.

Preceded by
Tuanku Jaafar
(Yang di-Pertuan Besar of
Negeri Sembilan)
Yang di-Pertuan Agong
(King of Malaysia)
Succeeded by
Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
(Raja of Perlis)
Preceded by
Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah
Sultan of Selangor Succeeded by
Sultan Sharafuddin
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