Muhammad V ( Jawi: ; born 6 October 1969) has been the 29th

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since ascending to the throne in 2010. He previously reigned as the

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from 2016 until his abdication in 2019. He was proclaimed Sultan of Kelantan on 13 September 2010, succeeding his father, Sultan Ismail Petra, who was deemed incapacitated after suffering a stroke. Sultan Muhammad V was later proclaimed Yang di-Pertuan Agong on 13 December 2016. On 6 January 2019, he became the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong to abdicate from the federal throne.

Early life and education

Born Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra bin Tengku Ismail Petra ( Jawi: ) in

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on 6 October 1969. He is the eldest son of Sultan Ismail Petra and Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis. Tengku Faris received his early education at Fatima Convent kindergarten from 1974 to 1975. He continued his primary education at SK Sultan Ismail (1),

from 1976 to 1981 and his secondary education at Alice Smith School,

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before leaving for the

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to study at Oakham School, Rutland, England from 1983 to 1989. He then furthered his education at St Cross College, Oxford and at the

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to study diplomatic studies, graduating in 1991. He also studied at

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; Deutsche Stiftung für Internationale Entwicklung (DSE),

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, Germany; and the European Business School,

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Crown Prince of Kelantan (1985–2010)

Tengku Faris was made the Tengku Mahkota (

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) of

on 6 October 1985 and formally installed at Balairong Sri, Istana Balai Besar,

on 6 October 1987. On 14 May 2009, his father, Sultan Ismail Petra, suffered a massive stroke. He was admitted to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore and Tengku Faris was appointed the Regent of Kelantan on 25 May in the Sultan's absence.

Sultan of Kelantan (2010–present)

On 13 September 2010, Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra was proclaimed the 29th Al-Sultan of Kelantan, in accordance with Article 29A of the State Constitution which states that a sultan can no longer be ruler if he is not viable to rule for a period of more than a year. He took the

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''Sultan Muhammad V''. Sultan Muhammad V attended the 222nd Meeting of the

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for the first time as a full member in October 2010. This marked the recognition of his accession as sultan by other rulers. Sultan Muhammad V is the Colonel in Chief of Royal Intelligence Corps (

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) and

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(

). Since 23 November 2022, he has served as the Chancellor of Universiti Malaysia Kelantan (UMK), as per his duties as Sultan of Kelantan.

Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong (2011–2016)

Sultan Muhammad V was elected Deputy Yang di-Pertuan Agong in October 2011. He served in the post from 13 December 2011 until his election as Yang di-Pertuan Agong on 13 December 2016.

Yang di-Pertuan Agong (2016–2019)

Sultan Muhammad V was elected by the Conference of Rulers on 14 October 2016 to become the next

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, the head of state of Malaysia. His reign began on 13 December 2016, taking over from Abdul Halim, the

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. Sultan Muhammad V was installed as the fifteenth Yang Di Pertuan Agong of Malaysia on 24 April 2017 in a ceremony held at the Istana Negara, Jalan Duta, Kuala Lumpur. His younger brother, Tengku Muhammad Faiz Petra, the Tengku Mahkota, served as Regent of Kelantan throughout Sultan Muhammad V's tenure as Yang di-Pertuan Agong. He was made an Honorary Fellow of his former College, St Cross College, Oxford on 28 February 2018. It was during his reign when Malaysia witnessed the first change in government in 2018, when the ruling

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, was unseated by the

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. Sultan Muhammad V also granted a royal pardon to

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, the current

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, which paved the way for him to return to the

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once again in a by-election held later that year. In an unprecedented move, Sultan Muhammad V became the first Yang di-Pertuan Agong to abdicate from the throne, effective 6 January 2019 while his term was to end on 12 December 2021. This followed a leave of absence from his position following rumours that he had married a former Russian beauty queen.

Personal life

On 15 November 2004, Sultan Muhammad V (then the Tengku Mahkota) married Tengku Zubaidah binti Tengku Norudin (née Kangsadal Pipitpakdee), a member of the Patani royal family. He divorced her in 2008, which resulted in her losing the privilege as ''Tengku Ampuan Mahkota of Kelantan''. He was the first

in Malaysian history to reign without a

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consort. On 30 October 2010, he married Sultanah Nur Diana Petra Abdullah (''née'' Jana Jakoubková) and proclaimed her as the Sultanah of Kelantan on 2 August 2022 with the style as ''Her Royal Highness Sultanah Nur Diana Petra Abdullah, Sultanah of Kelantan''. In late November 2018, it was reported that while on leave from the country, Sultan Muhammad V had married former beauty pageant winner Oksana Voevodina in Barvikha,

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. However, the reported marriage in Moscow was in fact a party to enable Oksana Voevodina's friends and family to celebrate the couple's official Islamic wedding, which had taken place in private on 7 June 2018, in Kota Bharu, Kelantan, following Oksana's conversion to Islam in April 2018. There is no official record of a marriage in Russia. Voevodina won the Miss Moscow title in 2015. Media reported the birth of their son Tengku Ismail Leon Petra ibni Sultan Muhammad V on 21 May 2019. On 1 July 2019, Sultan Muhammad V divorced her by a ''"talak tiga"'' or talaq baayin that is the irrevocable divorce and most severe divorce in Islam, after filing of documents at the Singapore Syariah Court earlier on 22 June. On 6 September he acknowledged that the marriage did take place; Oksana had given birth to a son three and half months earlier.

Awards and recognitions

Honours

He has been awarded:

Kelantan

MY-KEL Royal Family Order - Star of Yunus - DK

Grand Master (since 13 September 2010) and Recipient (DK, 6 October 1986) of the Royal Family Order of Kelantan or ''Star of Yunus'' * MY-KEL Order of the Crown of Kelantan - Star of Muhammad

MY-KEL Order of the Crown of Kelantan - Star of Muhammad

Grand Master and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Crown of Kelantan or ''Star of Muhammad'' with title (SPMK, since 13 September 2010) with titile ''Dato * My-KEL Order of the Life of the Crown of Kelantan 2006

My-KEL Order of the Life of the Crown of Kelantan 2006

Grand Master and Knight Grand Commander of the

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or ''Star of Ismail'' (SJMK, since 13 September 2010) with title ''Dato * MY-KEL Order of the Noble Crown of Kelantan - SPKK

Grand Master and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Noble Crown of Kelantan or ''Star of Yahya'' (SPKK, since 13 September 2010) with title ''Dato * My-KEL Order of Loyalty to the Crown of Kelantan

Grand Master and Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Loyalty to the Crown of Kelantan or ''Star of Ibrahim'' (SPSK, since 13 September 2010) with title ''Dato * MY-KEL Order of the Services to the Crown of Kelantan - SPJK

MY-KEL Order of the Services to the Crown of Kelantan - SPJK

Founding Grand Master and Knight Grand Commander of the Most Loyal Order of Services to the Crown of Kelantan or ''Star of Petra'' (''SPJK'', since 11 November 2016) with title ''Dato * MY-KEL Order of the Most Distinguished and Most Valiant Warrior - PYGP

MY-KEL Order of the Most Distinguished and Most Valiant Warrior - PYGP

Grand Master of the Order of the Most Distinguished and Most Valiant Warrior (PYGP, since 13 September 2010) * MY-KEL Sultan Ismail Petra Coronation Medal

MY-KEL Sultan Ismail Petra Coronation Medal

Sultan Ismail Petra Coronation Medal (30 March 1980) * MY-KEL Sultan Ismail Petra Silver Jubilee Medal

Sultan Ismail Petra Silver Jubilee Medal (30 March 2004) * MY-KEL Sultan Muhammad V Proclamation Medal

Sultan Muhammad V Proclamation Medal (13 September 2010)

Malaysia and its other states

* **

MY Darjah Kerabat Diraja Malaysia - Royal Family Order of Malaysia - DKM

Grand Master of the Order of the Royal Family of Malaysia (13 December 2016 – 6 January 2019) and Recipient (DKM) (31 January 2017) ** Recipient (DMN) (7 December 2011) and Grand Master of the Order of the Crown of the Realm (13 December 2016 – 6 January 2019) ** Grand Master of the

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(13 December 2016 – 6 January 2019) **

Grand Master of the

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(13 December 2016 – 6 January 2019) ** MY Darjah Bakti - Order of Merit of Malaysia - DB

Grand Master of the Order of Merit of Malaysia (13 December 2016 – 6 January 2019) ** MY Darjah Jasa Negara - Order of Meritorious Service - PJN

Grand Master of the Order of Meritorious Service (13 December 2016 – 6 January 2019) ** MY Panglima Setia Diraja - Order of the Royal Household - PSD

Grand Master of the Order of Loyalty to the Royal Family of Malaysia (13 December 2016 – 6 January 2019) ** MY Pingat Pertabalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong IX ribbon

MY Pingat Pertabalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong IX ribbon

Recipient of the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (18 September 1989) ** MY Pingat Pertabalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong X ribbon

Recipient of the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (22 September 1994) ** Pingat Pertabalan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Alhaj YDPA ke-11 Malaysia 1999

Pingat Pertabalan Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah Alhaj YDPA ke-11 Malaysia 1999

Recipient of the 11th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (23 September 1999) ** MY Pingat Pertabalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong XII ribbon

Recipient of the 12th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (25 April 2002) ** MY Pingat Pertabalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong XIII ribbon

Recipient of the 13th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (26 April 2007) ** MY Pingat Pertabalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong XIV ribbon

Recipient of the 14th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (11 April 2012) ** MY Pingat Pertabalan Yang di-Pertuan Agong XV ribbon

Recipient of the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong Installation Medal (24 April 2017) * ** Most Esteemed Royal Family Order of Johor - ribbon bar

First Class of the Royal Family Order of Johor (DK I) (14 April 2011) * ** Member of the Royal Family Order of Kedah (DK) (26 March 2012) * ** MY-NEG Royal Family Order of Negeri Sembilan - DKNS

MY-NEG Royal Family Order of Negeri Sembilan - DKNS

Member of the Royal Family Order of Negeri Sembilan (DKNS) (7 April 2011) ** MY-NEG Tuanku Muhriz Installation Medal

Recipient of the Tuanku Muhriz Installation Medal (26 October 2009) * ** MY-PERA Royal Family Order of Perak - DK

Recipient of the Royal Family Order of Perak (DK) (24 July 2011) * ** MY-PERL Perlis Family Order of the Gallant Prince Syed Putra Jamalullail - DK

Recipient of the Perlis Family Order of the Gallant Prince Syed Putra Jamalullail (DK) (19 October 2011) ** MY-PERL Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail Installation Medal 2001

MY-PERL Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail Installation Medal 2001

Recipient of the Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin Jamalullail Installation Medal (7 May 2001) * ** MY-SEL Royal Family Order of Selangor - DK I

First Class of the

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(DK I) (5 January 2011) ** MY-SEL Coronation Medal 2003

Recipient of the Sultan Sharafuddin Coronation Medal (8 March 2003) * ** MY-TER Family Order of Terengganu 1st class - DK I

Member first class of the Family Order of Terengganu (DK I) (November 2014) * ** MY-PAH Family Order of the Crown of Indra of Pahang - DK I

Member 1st class of the Family Order of the Crown of Indra of Pahang (DK I) (20 December 2023)

Foreign

* : Member Special Class of the Order of Sheikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa (1 May 2017) * : Sultan of Brunei Golden Jubilee Medal (5 October 2017) * : Grand Cross of the Order of the Legion of Honour (27 March 2017) * : Collar of the Order of Independence (15 October 2017) * : Collar of Badr Chain (26 February 2017)

Academic

* Honorary Fellow, St Cross College, University of Oxford (28 February 2018)

Places named after him

Several places were named after him, including: * Sultan Muhammad V Mosque in Kampung Lajau,

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* Sultan Muhammad V Mosque in Kompleks Penjara Sungai Udang,

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* Wisma Sultan Muhammad V in

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* Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra Mosque in Kuala Krai,

* Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra Science Secondary School in Pengkalan Chepa,

Ancestry

References

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