KELANTAN ROYAL FAMILY - WHO'S WHO

Kelantan sultan

Sultan Ismail Petra, who suffered a stroke last May is said to be incapacitated.

Raja Perempuan

Tengku Anis Tengku Abdul Hamid

Elia Suhana Ahmad (second wife). Divorce filed on March 9 by the sultan through third party.

Children

No 1 son: Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra (regent; acting sultan)

No 2 son: Tengku Muhammad Faiz Petra

No 3 son: Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra

Daughter: Tengku Amalin A'ishah Putri

 

 

Chronology of events

May 14, 2009

Tuanku Ismail is admitted to Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia (HUSM) for heart problems and transferred to Singapore’s Mount Elizabeth Hospital, where he undergoes a nine-month-long treatment.

NONE May 24, 2009

Tengku Faris ( right ) is appointed acting sultan by the state’s Council of Succession.

 

May 31, 2009

Tengku Fakhry’s teen wife, Manohara Odelia Pinot, runs away in Singapore during the couple’s visit to Tuanku Ismail. She later alleges abuse and has since been seeking a divorce.

June 27, 2009

Kelantan palace comptroller Abdul Halim Hamad releases statement saying that matters between Manohara and Tengku Fakhry are personal, and have nothing to do with Tuanku Ismail, Tengku Faris, and the Kelantan Sultan's Office.

NONE Tengku Fakhry ( right ) later claims that it is slanderous and files a defamation suit against palace officials. The court subsequently throws out the case.

Sep 9, 2009

Tengku Fakhry sues his brother Tengku Faris over a luxury car, a Bentley Brooklands, for a declaration that the car was purchased for Tengku Fakhry or Tuanku Ismail’s disposal, and that detention of the car by Tengku Faris is unlawful.

Sep 16, 2009

Tengku Faris removes Tengku Fakhry, the third in line to the throne, from the Council of Succession.

Dec 1, 2009

Tengku Fakhry sues eldest brother, Tengku Faris, the Kelantan Government, the Succession Council secretary and five others challenging the decision to remove him from council.

He subsequently loses the case when the High Court rules that Tengku Fakhry’s decision cannot be reviewed.

March 4, 2010

Tuanku Ismail returns from Singapore. He is said to still be incapacitated .

March 9, 2010

The Sultan of Kelantan files for divorce from his second wife Elia Suhana Ahmad. It is revealed later that the plaintiff is not Tuanku Ismail himself, but one Nik Rorhana Wan Abdul Rahman.

March 13, 2010

Tengku Faris issues a statement saying that he is still acting Sultan despite his father’s return, and that his brother Tengku Fakhry, has no authority to act on the sultan’s behalf.

March 15, 2010

Both princes Tengku Faris and Tengku Fakhry move to strip individuals linked to each side of the warring camps of their datuk-ship.

March 25, 2010

Tengku Abdul Aziz Tengku Hamzah, Tengku Faris’ uncle, is declared the acting Sultan replacing Tengku Faris. The move is announced by Wan Hashim Wan Daud, who claims to be the sultan’s private secretary, and is acting on Tuanku Ismail’s orders.

Wan Hashim is arrested a few hours later for “inciting unrest” but is released two days later.

March 26, 2010

Tengku Faris removes his uncle Tengku Abdul Aziz as chairman of the Succession Council, replacing him with Tengku Laksamana Kelantan Tengku Abdul Halim ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim.

Council secretary Aisery Alias and Deputy Mentri Besar Datuk Ahmad Yaakob also announce that the removal of Tengku Faris as acting sultan is illegal as it was not sanctioned by the state Royal Succession Council.

May 1, 2010

Kelantan palace guard, Ramli Mohd, is shot by two men while on the way home from work shortly after midnight.

May 4, 2010

Tuanku Ismail, Tengku Anis and Tengku Fakhry are stopped by a Special Actions Unit, a team of elite policemen, just 50 metres from the palace gates when they are about to head to the Kota Bharu airport at 7.30pm.

They had wanted to send Tuanku Ismail back to Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore for his follow-up treatment but are rerouted to Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia in Kubang Kerian.

Tengku Fakhry is also detained for about four hours while Tengku Anis claims that she has been holing up and sleeping on the floor in HUSM to evade police arrest.

May 5, 2010

Palace comptroller Abdul Halim says that Tengku Faris has ordered Kelantan chief police officer Abdul Rahim Hanafi to “ensure the safety of the ruler ” following the shooting of the palace guard. The re-routing is also to enable medical specialists to examine Tuanku Ismail and give their views to the regent and the state government on follow-up treatment.

NONE "Previously, certain quarters had prevented specialists from administering follow-up treatment and therapy on the sultan," says Abdul Halim.

May 7, 2010

Lawyers claiming to be acting on behalf of the sultan file a habeas corpus writ to “release” the sultan.