Raja Azureen binti Almarhum Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah Al-Maghfur-Lah is the eldest daughter of Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak. She was born in

Penang Penang is a Malaysian state located on the northwest coast of Peninsular Malaysia along the Strait of Malacca. It has two parts: Penang Island, where the capital city, George Town, is located, and Seberang Perai on the Malay Peninsula. Th ...

, Malaya (now

Malaysia Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia. Featuring the Tanjung Piai, southernmost point of continental Eurasia, it is a federation, federal constitutional monarchy consisting of States and federal territories of Malaysia, 13 states and thre ...

) on 9 December 1957.

Biography

Raja Azureen had her primary education at Marion Convent in

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and her secondary education at the Bukit Nanas Convent School in

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. She continued her tertiary education and obtained BSc in Mathematics and Economics at the University of Syracuse, New York, in the United States. She continued her studies at the London Graduate School of Business Studies in the UK where she did her Masters in Business Administration. Raja Azureen is married to Mohd. Salleh bin Ismail who is a banker cum business consultant. In March 2007, Raja Azureen was appointed as the President of Masterskill College of Nursing and Health, Cheras, Malaysia. In July 2008, the college was upgraded to Masterskill University College of Health Sciences (MUCH) and Raja Azureen was proclaimed as the first Chancellor of MUCH. Raja Azureen is also the President for the Malaysian National Society for the Deaf, Patron for Riding for the Disabled (RDA) Malaysia, Patron for the Friends of the National Library of Malaysia and Patron for the Perak Ladies Club in Selangor and Federal Territory Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She has two sons and two daughters: * Abdul Latiff bin Mohd Salleh * Azlin binti Mohd Salleh * Datin Nurlin binti Mohd Salleh * Abdul Azim bin Mohd Salleh Her daughter, Datin Nurlin is married to Dato' Syed Haizam Hishamuddin Putra Jamalullail of Perlis and Selangor. He is also the ''Engku Panglima Setia Diraja of Selangor''. They have a son and three daughters. The couple had their first child a daughter named, Sharifah Nur Alara Budriah Jamalullail, was born on 9 October 2014. Their second child, a son named Syed Azlan Salahuddin Putra Jamalullail , was born on 22 July 2016. Their third child, a girl named Sharifah Nur Zahra Hatijah Jamalullail , was born in 2019 and their fourth child, a girl named Sharifah Nur Ilana Bainunsafia Jamalullail, was born in 2020.

Childhood

Raja Azureen was born in Penang, Malaya on 9 December 1957 as the second child of the late Sultan Azlan Muhibbuddin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah Ghafarullahu-lah, later Sultan Azlan Shah of Perak, and his wife Tuanku Bainun Binti Mohd Ali (herself a member of the Royal House of Perak and much second granddaughter of her husband's father Sultan Yussuff Izzuddin Shah of Perak) Her siblings are : * Raja Nazrin Shah (born 27 November 1956) * Raja Ashman Shah (born 28 December 1958 died 30 March 2012) * Raja Eleena (born 3 April 1960) * Raja Yong Sofia (born 24 June 1961)

Honours

Honours of Raja Azureen

She has been awarded:

Honours of Perak

MY-PERA Azlanii Royal Family Order - Member Second Class - DKA II

Member Second Class of the Azlan Royal Family Order (DKA II) * Grand Knight of the Order of Cura Si Manja Kini (SPCM, 19 April 1988) with title Dato' Seri

Honours of Mohd Salleh

He has been awarded:

Honours of Perak

Member Second Class of the Azlan Royal Family Order (DKA II) * Grand Knight of the Order of Cura Si Manja Kini (SPCM) - Dato' Seri

Ancestry

References

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