Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah wife. Why did the Sultan of Brunei get rid of "extra" wives. No money, but I'm a sultan

The ceremony began on April 5 and will last 11 days. Gold, precious stones, simply unimaginable luxury...

Several hundred hundreds of relatives, friends and diplomats are present at this wedding. The 1,788-room royal family's palace in Brunei's capital has room for everyone. Prince Abdul Malik, 31, exchanged vows with Dayangku Raabiatul Adavia Pengiran Haji Bolkia, 22.

The newlyweds at their first appearance in public literally sparkled with richly decorated dresses in the Malay style, while the young wife of the son of the Sultan flaunted a set of gold jewelry with diamonds and emeralds the size of a quail egg. And in the hands of the bride, instead of a bouquet of flowers, there was a bouquet of precious stones. On the girl's legs were seen shoes from the Christian Louboutin collection for $ 4,000, and a weighty gold bracelet shone on her ankle.

The royal wedding of the future Sultan of Brunei, Prince Abdul Malik, with his chosen one, 22-year-old programmer Dayangku Raabi’atul ‘Adawiyyah Pengiran Haji Bolkiah, eclipsed even the wedding of the Crown Prince of the British throne, which, compared to this one, could be called very modest. The prince of Brunei and his chosen one were dressed in wedding dresses embroidered with real gold, and the bride's bouquet was made of precious stones.

Prince Abdul Malik is the youngest of the four sons of the reigning Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah and the second in line to the throne after his father. The wedding ceremony took place 11 days after the engagement.



The solemn wedding ceremony took place in the Sultan's palace in the capital of Brunei, in Bandar Seri Begawan. Istana Nurul Imam Palace - the residence of the Sultan - has 1788 rooms.


The bride's wedding necklace and tiara are adorned with diamonds and huge emeralds the size of grapes. According to local traditions, the bride must wear something borrowed. In this case, these were the mother-in-law's jewelry - a diamond tiara, a necklace and a brooch.


The bride's shoes by Christian Louboutin are decorated with diamonds and gold.


During the wedding ceremony.
Brunei, a 400,000-strong British colony on the northwestern coast of Borneo, is an absolute monarchy (sultanate). In Brunei, which is ruled by the 68-year-old sultan, he is both the head of state and the head of government, and the minister of national defense, and the minister of finance.




Prince Abdul Malik with his father, the Sultan of Brunei. Members of the royal family have often been criticized for being too extravagant in their lifestyle. "The Telegraph" recalled that in 1996, Michael Jackson was supposed to receive 10 million pounds for a concert in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Sultan. However, dissatisfaction with the state system in the country is small, which is a consequence of the high standard of living of its citizens, as well as free education and healthcare.














The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, has five sons and seven daughters from three marriages. Prince Abdul Malik is second in line to the Brunei throne. The first son, Crown Prince Al-Muhtadi Bill of Brunei, married over 10 years ago.


The Sultan of Brunei, the groom's father and fuel magnate, is one of the richest men in the world. His fortune is estimated at 20-80 billion dollars. Hassanal Bolkiah has been ruling his country since 1967.




About five thousand guests were invited to the wedding of Prince Abdul Malik.

The Sultan of Brunei is the richest ruler in the world

If among the “mere mortals” in terms of personal fortune there is still no equal to the owner of the Microsoft computer company Bill Gates, then among the “chosen ones” by God, as before, the Sultan of Brunei Haji is considered the wealthiest (he made a pilgrimage to Mecca to Muslim shrines) Hassanal Bolkiah. At the age of 61, his personal fortune (or rather, it is nothing more than the national budget of his native Sultanate of Brunei) is 22 billion dollars.
Even 40 years ago, this man became the 29th sultan of the little Malay Sultan of Brunei on the island of Borneo (it also contains two states of Malaysia - Sabah and Sarawak, and part of Indonesia), he actually inherited the wealth of the entire Bolkiah dynasty, which already has more than 600 years.
The Sultan of Brunei simultaneously serves as the Prime Minister, Minister of Defense, Minister of Finance of his country, as well as the head of the local religious community. In general, everything is under one-man control, so it is not surprising that His Highness remains the richest "royal heir" on our planet. In addition, world oil prices are still very high, and since there is practically nothing else in Brunei except for oil, the wealth of its sultan will, apparently, continue to grow at an enviable pace.

Sultan of Brunei got married again

Text: Marina Lemutkina Photo: Reuters

The Sultan of Brunei again got a second wife. His chosen one was a TV journalist. With the previous second wife - a former flight attendant - he divorced in 2003, depriving her of all royal privileges. With his first wife, whose middle name is Hysteria, the Sultan has been living in peace and harmony for many years.

Last weekend, the 58-year-old supreme ruler of the Sultanate of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiyah, married 26-year-old Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim. According to Reuters, the wedding took place in the capital of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, and, unlike the previous family celebrations of the Sultan, did not differ on a gigantic scale. This time the event was attended only by close friends and relatives of the bride and groom.

According to the British newspaper Daily Telegraph, the Sultan's new wife is a former journalist. She graduated from the Malaysian Institute of Media, after which she worked first as a TV reporter and then as a news anchor for TV3 channel of Malaysian television. Azrinaz retired from television 3 months ago to, in her words, "devote herself to a different kind of pursuit." Her marriage to the Sultan, as Mingguan Malaysia emphasizes, finally cleared up the mystery about the nature of these activities.

Azrinaz is the second wife of Hassanal Bolkiyakh.

With his previous second wife - flight attendant Mariam Abdul Aziz - he divorced in February 2003, depriving her of all royal titles. The marriage of the Sultan with his first wife - Raja Hysteria Penjiran Anak Hajah Saleha - is still in force.

In accordance with the norms of Islam, the laws of Brunei allow men to have up to four wives. And the fact that the Sultan again acquired a second wife was immediately used by local ideologists to strengthen the propaganda of polygamy. There have been calls in the Brunei media for Brunei wives not to prevent their husbands from entering into new marriages if they can afford it financially. According to Berita Minggu newspaper, married women need to think about "girls starting out of marriageable age who are at risk of remaining unmarried, although there are men who are ready to marry them." “This problem will remain unresolved if married women are guided only by their own personal interests, neglecting the interests of others,” emphasizes the newspaper’s expert, who calls on compatriots to “give more freedom for maneuver” to their husbands.

Brunei is an absolute monarchy, a characteristic feature of which has long been political and economic stability. The basis of the country's long-term prosperity was the billions in profits from the oil trade. Thanks to the constant influx of petrodollars, considerable wealth has been accumulated in the country and a relatively developed system of social protection has been created, including, among other things, universal provision of free housing.

Thanks to petrodollars, the Sultan of Brunei has long been considered the richest man in the world. There were legends about his treasures and expensive undertakings. So, in 1996, in honor of his 50th birthday, the Sultan ordered Michael Jackson from the United States, who spoke to his subjects for free. That same year, Hassanal Bolkiah hosted a week-long celebration of his eldest daughter's wedding, featuring American pop stars Stevie Wonder and Whitney Houston.

The situation changed after the financial and economic crisis of 1997-1998, which called into question the myth of the inviolability of the economic prosperity of the sultanate. The economic problems that had begun were supplemented by a financial scandal that broke out in the financial empire of the Sultan's brother, Prince Jefri. Jeffrey's personal losses alone then amounted to billions of dollars. At the same time, the wealth rating of Sultan Hassanal Bolkiyakh also decreased. However, it is clear that he still has enough money to support his second wife.
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The Sultan of Brunei is one of the richest people in the world. He surprises the world with boundless luxury. The whole world enviously discusses the published scandalous data on his expenses, and he continues to live in a big way. One of his recent purchases is an Airbus A340 aircraft for US$100 million. Let's take a look at the flying palace - the personal plane of the head of the oil power.

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1. The Airbus A340 is a long-haul four-engine wide-body jet passenger aircraft developed by Airbus SAS and is the world's longest passenger aircraft with a fuselage length of 75.3 meters. Due to its large wingspan and high fuel consumption, the A340-212 was not in demand - a total of 28 such aircraft were produced, including the Sultan version.

2. Corridor in the plane of the Sultan.

3. Meeting room.

4. And this is very romantically called the "compartment compartment."

5. Toilet with shower. All plumbing in the aircraft is gilded.

6. And finally, the golden shell.

8. The Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, has been flying the Airbus A340-212 for a long time, and according to US intelligence, getting on board is harder than getting into a room with a US nuclear launch system.

9. The Sultan bought an Airbus A340-212 for $100 million, after which he gave it for revision to the American military department (!) Raytheon, which completely changed the interior of the aircraft for $120 million and modernized it somewhat. Additional fuel tanks increased the flight range to 15 thousand km, against 12.4 thousand for the production model.

10. Airbus Sultan of Brunei was decorated in the colors of the national flag.

11. Hassanal Bolkiah has been surrounded by gold and diamonds since the day he was born. In October 1967, at the age of 21, Bolkiah took over as Sultan of Brunei and began to increase his wealth. Gold accompanies the Sultan everywhere, even in the sky.

Brunei has an absolute monarchy. The head of the country is the Sultan. And although this state received full independence from Great Britain only in 1984, one should not think that some impostor newcomers rule the kingdom. The dynasty of the Sultans of Brunei was founded in the distant XIV century! The current Sultan, Haji Hassanal Bolkiah, is considered the 29th in this long chain of rulers.

Hassanal was crowned in 1968 when Brunei was still a British protectorate. Now he is 70 years old.

Portraits of the Sultan and his first wife, Anak Saleh, hang in every institution in the country. He later had two more wives, but he is divorced from them, and they are deprived of all royal titles and palace privileges. During his second and third marriages, he remained married to his first wife. That is, the Sultan had two wives at the same time, but he did not reach three, as in the famous song. Apparently he was really frightened by the possibility of so many mother-in-law.

On all banknotes of the country, too, only the Sultan. Just like Lenin was on all Soviet rubles. But unlike Ilyich, the Sultan is depicted in various funny headdresses.

Yes, since we are talking about money, I will tell you that there is oil in Brunei, the proceeds from the sale of which made the Sultan a fabulously rich man. With an approximate personal fortune in the region of $20 billion (that's "million" with a "B"!) The Sultan of Brunei is one of the five richest monarchs in the world. In the same 1984 that the country gained independence, he built himself a huge palace. Not simply huge, and the largest in the world!The residence called Istana Nurul Iman ("Palace of Light") contains almost 1,800 rooms, including more than 250 bathrooms!In total, the building has more than 200,000 square meters of area!

It is practically impossible for mere mortals to get here, only the courtyard of this luxurious residence is open to the people, and then only once a year, on the holiday of Eid al-Fitr.

By the way, our Sultan is quite well educated. He holds Doctor of Science degrees from universities in Thailand, Singapore, Scotland and Indonesia. Of the more famous educational institutions, Oxford in England and even MGIMO in Moscow awarded him an honorary doctoral diploma!

The Sultan works for his people like a galley slave. In addition to being the monarch and head of state, he is also the prime minister and head of government. And also the Minister of Defense, the Minister of Finance and of course the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces of Brunei. And if this is not enough for you, then the Sultan moonlights as the head of the Islamic clergy in the country - the caliph. Further, he is also Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Head of Customs, and Inspector General of Police.

I can’t imagine how he has enough time for all this! I'm

Recently, in a topic about the Spanish Queen Leticia, I wrote that there are beautiful Asian princesses and queens in the world, but little is known about them.

Let's meet someone! Let's start with Brunei.

Brunei is a state (sultanate) in Southeast Asia, on the northwestern coast of the island of Kalimantan. It is washed by the South China Sea. The population is 401,890. Brunei is one of the smallest countries that still has a monarchy, and its monarchs are among the richest royal families in the world.

The royal gilded palace where the family lives has 1,788 rooms, 257 of which are bathrooms. The living area is 200,000 square meters (for clarity, imagine a football field, exactly 20 of these will fit in the palace). Under the palace is a huge garage for 500 Mercedes, 350 Bentleys, 170 Jaguars and 130 Rolls-Royces.

The current ruler is the 29th Sultan of Brunei, Hassanal Bolkiah, a representative of a dynasty that has been ruling since the 14th century.

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with his first wife Pengiran Anak Saleha

Sultan was married 3 times. He is still married to his first wife, but he divorced his second and third, depriving them of all titles.

Pengiran Anak Saleh

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with first wife Pengiran Anak Saleha and second wife Haja Mariam

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with his second wife Haj Mariam

His second wife was a flight attendant for Royal Brunei Airlines, with whom he lived for over 20 years, and his third wife was a Malaysian television journalist 33 years his junior.

Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah with his third wife Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim

The Sultan has 12 children from three wives, 5 sons and 7 daughters.

Nothing is known about most of them other than their names. And even photographs appear mainly in connection with weddings. Moreover, the princesses are also confused, under the same name of the princess they publish photos of clearly different women.

But they are in very beautiful Brunei national costumes, which are very interesting to look at.

Princess Sarah

Princess Sarah, born Sarah Binti Salleh Ab-Rahaman (born 1987), became Crown Princess of Brunei when she married Crown Prince Al-Muhtadi Billah (the Sultan's eldest son) in 2004, at the age of 17.

However, she met the prince when she was 14 and still in school.

Sarah Salleh's father is a Brunei businessman and her mother is Swiss nurse Suzanne Aeby. She is the third and youngest child in the family.

Sarah received her Bachelor of Arts in Public Policy and Administration from the University of Brunei Darussalam, the same university her husband studied at.

Sarah was also a cadet in the university cadet corps.

Now she and the prince have three children, two sons and a daughter.

Princess Majida

Princess Majida was born in 1976 and is the Sultan's fourth child. In 2007, the princess married Khairule Khalile, who is an assistant chief executive in the office of the Prime Minister of Brunei.

Princess Hafiza (born 1980) is the fifth of 12 children of the current Sultan of Brunei, Hasanal Bolkia.

In 2012, 32-year-old Hafiza married a simple employee who is 2 years younger than his wife.

Hafiza works in the Ministry of Finance (her father is the Minister of Finance), and her husband works for the prime minister, in a unit that deals with economic issues.

These are three princesses, in whose personalities I am sure that they are in the photographs. In general, the life of the royal houses of Asia is very poorly covered in the press. Even there are no normal photographs anywhere, what kind of prince or princess they look like.