There was no way the learned Selangor ruler Sultan Sharafuddin Idris Shah could have misunderstood Bersatu chairperson Dr Mahathir Mohamad's "Bugis remark", said Rizal Mansor, an aide to the prime minister's wife Rosmah Mansor.

Rizal said the idea of a "misunderstanding", as suggested by Bersatu Youth chief Syed Saddiq Syed Abdul Rahman, could not have happened because the matter was the collectively addressed by the Selangor Council of the Royal Court.

"(Syed Saddiq) said his majesty might have misunderstood Mahathir's insult towards the Bugis people.

"How could a ruler, who is held in high regard, misunderstand (the matter) when the members of the Council of the Royal Court have decided that Mahathir is wrong, and called for legal action?

"Clearly, it was not the ruler who decided alone and Syed Saddiq had suggested that his majesty had received the wrong advice from palace officials," said Rizal in a statement...