Josephine Ruby Trevorrow

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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 Sultan of Johor and the seventeenth King of Malaysia. One of her daughters, Tunku Azizah, married Sultan Abdullah, the current Sultan of Pahang and the sixteenth 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...

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