Almarhumah Enche' Besar Hajah Khalsom binti Abdullah ( Jawi: انچئ بسر حاجه كلثوم بنت عبد الله; born Josephine Ruby Trevorrow; 2 December 1935 – 1 June 2018) was the first wife of Sultan Iskandar and mother of Sultan Ibrahim, who is the current

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and the seventeenth

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since 31 January 2024. One of her daughters, Tunku Azizah, married Sultan Abdullah, the current

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, who was the previous King of Malaysia. She was born on 2 December 1935 in Cornwall in England, the only daughter of Reginald George Trevorrow, a textile manufacturer from Torquay, Cornwall, and his wife Ruby May Alderman. She met Iskandar while he was studying in England. After that she converted to Islam and changed her name to Khalsom binti Abdullah; they married on 5 January 1956. On 8 May 1959, after her husband was proclaimed Tunku Mahkota (Crown Prince) of Johor, she was known as Yang Amat Mulia Che’ Puan Khalsom Abdullah. The couple was married for six and a half years and had four children: * Tunku Puteri Kamariah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah (b. 11 July 1956), the Tengku Puan Laksamana of

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* Tunku Besar Zabedah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah (b. 20 October 1957) * Sultan Ibrahim ibni Almarhum Sultan Iskandar (b. 22 November 1958), the seventeenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia) and the fifth Sultan of modern Johor. * Tunku Hajah Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah (b. 5 August 1960), the fifth Tengku Ampuan of Pahang and the sixteenth

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(Queen consort of Malaysia) On 9 June 1962 they divorced, shortly after Iskandar's second marriage to Tengku Zanariah, and she returned to England. Later in 2010, her son Ibrahim, who had just become the Sultan of Johor, bestowed upon her the honorific form of address as Yang Amat Mulia Enche' Besar Hajah Khalsom Abdullah, D.K., S.M.I.J. She died aged 82 on 1 June 2018 at

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in London and was buried on 6 June in the

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Honours

Most Esteemed Royal Family Order of Johor - ribbon bar

First Class of the Royal Family Order of Johor (DK I) (22 November 2010) * Grand Knight of the Order of Sultan Ibrahim of Johor (SMIJ) (30 March 2015) Datin Paduka

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Trevorrow, Josephine Ruby 1935 births 2018 deaths House of Temenggong of Johor English emigrants to Malaysia Cornish people Malaysian people of Cornish descent Malaysian people of English descent Converts to Islam Malaysian Muslims English Muslims First Classes of the Royal Family Order of Johor Mothers of Malaysian monarchs