Sarah Pengiran Salleh
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Sarah Pengiran Salleh (born April 9, 1987) is the Crown Princess of Brunei, wife of Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah. Her royal title is Her Royal Highness Paduka Seri Pengiran Anak Isteri Pengiran Anak Sarah.
Sarah Binti Pengiran Salleh is the daughter of Pengiran Salleh Ab Rahaman (a distant relative of the royal family) and Rinawaty Abdullah Suzanne Rahaman Aeby (formerly Suzanne Aeby, who is Swiss). She has two older brothers, Awangku Irwan and Awangku Adrian.
Suzanne Aeby is rumoured to have initially forbidden her daughter from marrying Prince Billah, but later changed her mind and gave her blessing after the royal family promised to allow Sarah to complete her education.[citation needed]
She has attended St Andrew's School in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. She currently attends Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan Science College (Maktab Sains), a secondary school in Brunei.
According to reports, while she achieves good marks in school she is more interested in participating in sports (especially basketball and badminton) and charity runs (with her family she participated in an international 4WD expedition to China and Mongolia in May 2002).[citation needed]
At the age of 17, Sarah married the Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah in an elaborate wedding ceremony at the Nurul Iman Palace in Bandar Seri Begawan on September 9, 2004. After the initial ceremony, the Prince and Princess rode around BSB in the back of a specially customised, gold Rolls Royce. Despite the rainy conditions, thousands of Bruneians lined the streets of Jalan Sultan, among others, to greet the newlyweds.
