Tengku Zubaidah binti Tengku Norudin ( Jawi: ) or Kangsadal Pipitpakdee ( th, กังสดาล พิพิธภักดี) is a Thai woman of

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descent and member of Pattani Royal Family. She is the former wife of

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, the 29th

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Early life

Tengku Zubaidah is the third child of Wairot Phiphitphakdi (Tengku Norudin bin Tengku Muda) and Yaowalak Phiphitphakdi (Cik Jamilah binti Cik Abdullah). Wairot was a former Thai politician from the

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and a member of Parliament for Pattani for five terms. She was born in 1979 at the Jering Royal Palace, Pattani,

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. Tengku Zubaidah's family is a descendant of the royal family of Pattani who once led Pattani before it was conquered by Thailand in 1902. Her father, Wairot was the son of Phra Phiphitphakdi (Tengku Muda Abdul Putra) and his third wife Sawas (formerly Darachat), who was a Thai citizen of Chinese descent from Bangkok. Tengku Zubaidah is the cousin of

Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis binti Almarhum Tengku Abdul Hamid (born 6 January 1949) is the former Raja Perempuan ( Queen consort) of Kelantan. She is the widow of Sultan Ismail Petra and the mother of Sultan Muhammad V. As a Queen dowager, she i ...

, the mother of

. Her father, Wairot is a half-brother of Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis's father, Tengku Abdul Hamid bin Tengku Muda Abdul Putra.

Education

Tengku Zubaidah studied at the Demonstration School of Prince of Songkla University, Pattani and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree of Science from Mahidol University, Bangkok in 2003.

Personal life

On 15 November 2004, Tengku Zubaidah married Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra (now

), the eldest son of

Sultan Ismail Petra Sultan Ismail Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Yahya Petra ( Jawi: ; 11 November 1949 – 28 September 2019) was the 28th Sultan of Kelantan who reigned from 30 March 1979 to 13 September 2010. He succeeded on the death of his father, Sultan Yahy ...

and

. After their marriage, her official title became ''Yang Teramat Mulia'' (Her Royal Highness) Tengku Zubaidah binti Tengku Norudin, the ''Tengku Ampuan Mahkota'' (Crown Princess) of Kelantan. The marriage ended in divorce in 2008.

References

{{reflist 1979 births Living people Thai Muslims Tengku Zubaidah Tengku Norudin People from Pattani province