Tengku Afzan
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Tengku Hajjah Afzan binti Tengku Panglima Perang Muhammad is the former Tengku Ampuan or Queen of Pahang. She also served as Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia between 1979 and 1984.
[edit] Early Life
Born on 4 December 1933 in Kuala Terengganu, she is the fourth child of HRH Tengku Muhammad ibni Almarhum Sultan Ahmad Al-Mu’adzam Shah and HRH Tengku Hajah Mandat binti Tengku Mustafa, and the granddaughter of HRH Almarhum Sultan Ahmad Shah I, the Sultan of Terengganu.
Her father, the son of Sultan Ahmad of Pahang, served as Chief Minister of Terengganu before returning to Pahang to hold the same post.
Tengku Hajah Afzan received her early education at the Malay Girls’ School in Pekan. She also received private tuition in English.
[edit] Marriage and Becoming Queen
On 22 April 1944, at the age of 21, she married Tengku Ahmad Shah ibni Sultan Abu Bakar, the Crown Prince of Pahang and became the Tengku Ampuan of Pahang. She gave birth to seven children, two boys and five girls, and they are HH Tengku Mariam, HH Tengku Muhaini, HH Tengku Aishah, HRH Tengku Abdullah the Crown Prince of Pahang, HH Tengku Abdul Rahman, HH Tengku Hajah Nong Fatimah and HH Tengku Hajah Shahariah.
In 1974, when Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Al-Mustain Billah ibni Almarhum Sultan Sir Abu Bakar Riayatuddin Al-Muadzam Shah ascended to the throne, she became his Queen or Tengku Ampuan. She became Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia between 1979 and 1984.
She died of cancer in 1988, a week after her mother-in-law the dowager Tengku Ampuan Besar Raja Fatimah and a week before her own mother died.
