Tengku Intan Zaharah

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Tengku Intan Zaharah binti Tengku Hitam Omar bin Tengku Muda Osman is a member of the Malaysian royal family. She born in Kuala Terengganu in 1928. Her father, Tengku Setia Raja Terengganu, was a member of the Singapore royal family, serving in the Terengganu State Civil Service as the State Secretary of Terengganu; was exiled since the death of the last Sultan Alauddin Alam Shah in 1897.

She married Sultan Ismail Nasiruddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Zainal Abidin III (then Tengku Paduka Raja of Terengganu) in 1944 as his second wife. She had no children with him.

In 1945, the British Military Administration (BMA) under Lord Louis Mountbatten deposed Sultan Ali of Terengganu and chose Sultan Ismail to succeed his nephew. Accordingly, Tengku Intan Zaharah became Tengku Ampuan Besar (or Queen).

She served as Raja Permaisuri Agong during her husband's reign as Yang di-Pertuan Agong. In 1979, upon her husband's death she was created Tengku Ampuan of Terengganu. In 1998, on the death of her stepson, Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah, she became Tengku Ampuan Tua of Terengganu.