Tengku Afzan

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Tengku Hajjah Afzan binti Tengku Panglima Perang Muhammad was the former Tengku Ampuan or Queen of Pahang. She also served as Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia between 1979 and 1984.

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 Mandak 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.

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 at Istana Hinggap Kuala Lipis, and became the Tengku Ampuan of Pahang. She gave birth to seven children, two boys and five girls, and they are HH Tengku Meriam, 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.

Honours

She has been awarded : ^[1]

Honours of Pahang

- Member 1st class of the Family Order of the Crown of Indra of Pahang (DK I, 6.5.1975)
- Grand Knight of the Order of Sultan Ahmad Shah of Pahang (SSAP)
- Grand Knight of the Order of the Crown of Pahang (SIMP, 29.5.1972)

National and Sultanal Honours

Malaysia (as wife of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, 29 March 1979 – 25 April 1984) :
- Recipient of the Order of the Crown of the Realm (DMN, 29.5.1979),

Foreign Honours

Romania : First class of the Order Tudor Vladimirescu (25.11.1982)

References

↑ The Royal Ark, Pahang genealogical details, p.10

Persondata
Name	Tengku Afzan
Alternative names
Short description	Queen of Malaysia
Date of birth	1934
Place of birth
Date of death	1988
Place of death

Regnal titles
Preceded by Tengku Zainab (Raja Perempuan of Kelantan)	Raja Permaisuri Agong (Queen of Malaysia)	Succeeded by Tengku Zanariah (Sultanah of Johor)

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