Pengiran Anak Sarah
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| Pengiran Anak Sarah | ||
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| Crown Princess of Brunei | ||
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| Titles | HRH The Crown Princess of Brunei | |
| Born | April 9, 1987 | |
 Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei |
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| Predecessor | HM Raja Isteri Pengiran Anak Saleha | |
| Spouse | HRH Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah | |
| Issue | HRH Prince 'Abdul Muntaqim | |
| Royal House | House of Bolkiah | |
| Father | Pengiran Salleh Ab. Rahaman | |
| Mother | Suzanne Aeby | |
Pengiran Anak Sarah (born April 9, 1987) is the Crown Princess of Brunei and the wife of Crown Prince Al-Muhtadee Billah of Brunei.
Her Royal Highness (formerly known as Yang Mulia Dayangku Sarah) 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.
She has attended St Andrew's School in Bandar Seri Begawan, the capital of Brunei. She then continued and completed her secondary education at Paduka Seri Begawan Sultan Science College (Maktab Sains), a secondary school in Brunei where her husband, Prince Billah, had also previously attended. Princess Sarah is currently studying public policy at the Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD).
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).[1]
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.
On March 17, 2007 at 3.50 pm, Prince Billah and Princess Sarah welcomed the birth of their first child and likely future heir to the Brunei throne, a son named Abdul Muntaqim. In honour of the birth of the prince, a 19-gun salute was fired from the cannons on the grounds of Istana Nurul Iman, the official residence of the Sultan of Brunei. The gun-salute is traditionally carried out to mark the births of immediate members of Sultan's family, and serves as an announcement of a royal birth to the Bruneian people.
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| Preceded by Pengiran Anak Saleha |
Pengiran Anak Isteri (Crown Princess of Brunei) 2004 – present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |
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