Raja Perempuan Budriah

Raja Perempuan of Perlis (1928–2008)

Raja Perempuan Besar Tengku Budriah binti Almarhum Tengku Ismail (28 March 1925-28 November 2008) was the Raja Perempuan of Perlis and the third Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia.

Budriah
Raja Permaisuri Agong of Malaysia
Tenure21 September 1960 – 20 September 1965
Installation4 January 1961
PredecessorRaja Jemaah
SuccessorTengku Intan Zaharah
Raja Perempuan of Perlis
Tenure19 January 1946 – 16 April 2000
Coronation12 March 1949
SuccessorTengku Fauziah
Raja Perempuan Besar of Perlis
Tenure16 April 2000 – 28 November 2008
Born(1925-03-28)28 March 1925
Kuala Krai, Kelantan, Unfederated Malay States
Died28 November 2008(2008-11-28) (aged 83)
Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Burial29 November 2008
Perlis Royal Mausoleum, Arau
Spouse
(m. 1941; died 2000)
Issue
  • Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin
  • Syed Badaruddin
  • Syed Amir Zainal Abidin
  • Syed Razlan
  • Syed Zainal Anwar
  • Sharifah Salwa
  • Sharifah Jalaina
  • Sharifah Azwan
  • Sharifah Junetta
  • Sharifah Endah
Full name
Tengku Budriah binti Tengku Ismail
Regnal name
Tuanku Tengku Budriah binti Almarhum Tengku Ismail
FatherTengku Ismail bin Tuan Besar of Patani Kingdom
MotherTengku Besar Zabedah Tengku Abdul Kadir of Patani Kingdom
ReligionSunni Islam

Tengku Budriah binti Almarhum Tengku Ismail was born on the 28th of March 1925, in Kuala Krai (Kerai) in Kelantan, then part of the Unfederated Malay States, to Tengku Ismail Tengku Nik Haji, son of the 3rd Raja of Patani, in South Thailand,and to Tengku Besar Zabedah Tengku Abdul Kadir, eldest daughter of Sultan Abdul Kadir, 5th Raja of Patani.

She married Putra of Perlis in 1941, when she became exiled from Perlis following the Japanese occupation of Malaysia. In 1945, he, along with Tengku Budriah, returned to Perlis, where he was made Raja of Perlis and she was made Raja Perempuan of Perlis.

When Putra of Perlis died in 2000, she was made Raja Perempuan Besar of Perlis until her own death in 2008.

She was made Raja Permaisuri Agong in 1960, following Putra of Perlis' ascension to the throne as Yang di-Pertuan Agong.