Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra
تڠكو محمد فخري ڤيترا
Tengku Mahkota of Kelantan
Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra at the swearing-in ceremony of the 17th King of Malaysia
Crown Prince of Kelantan
Tenure4 January 2024 – present
PredecessorTengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra
Tengku Bendahara of Kelantan
TenureApril 2022 – 4 January 2024
Proclamation12 November 2022
PredecessorTengku Muhammad Fa-iz Petra
Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan
Tenure30 March 1997 – 30 September 2010
PredecessorTengku Zainal Mulok
SuccessorTengku Mohamad Rizam
BornTengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra bin Tengku Ismail Petra
7 April 1978
Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Malaysia
Spouse
(m. 2008; div. 2009)
Names
Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail Petra
HouseLong Yunus
FatherSultan Ismail Petra Ibni Almarhum Sultan Yahya Petra
MotherTengku Anis Binti Almarhum Tengku Abdul Hamid
ReligionSunni Islam

Tengku Muhammad Fakhry Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail Petra (Jawi: تڠكو محمد فخري ڤيترا ابن المرحوم سلطان إسماعيل ڤيترا; born 7 April 1978) is the current Tengku Mahkota (Crown Prince) of Kelantan. He is the younger brother of the current Sultan of Kelantan, Sultan Muhammad V.

Early life and education

Tengku Fakhry was born in Kota Bharu, Kelantan on 7 April 1978 as the third of four children of the 28th Sultan of Kelantan, Sultan Ismail Petra and Raja Perempuan Tengku Anis. His two elder brothers are Sultan Muhammad V, the current Sultan of Kelantan and the 15th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, and Tengku Muhammad Faiz Petra, the former Tengku Mahkota of Kelantan. His younger sister is Tengku Amalin A’ishah Putri, the Tengku Maharani Putri.

Tengku Fakhry began his early education at Sultan Ismail Primary School (1) in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. He continued his studies at United World College in Singapore and then studied A-Levels at Hurtwood House in England. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Finance from the University of Westminster, London.

Personal life

Tengku Fakhry married Manohara Odelia Pinot, an Indonesian model, on 26 August 2008 in Kota Bharu, Kelantan. They met in December 2006 at a dinner held by the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia at that time, Najib Razak in Jakarta, Indonesia. Manohara filed for divorce in May 2009, alleging that she had endured physical and mental abuse from her husband. Tengku Fakhry denied these claims and his lawyer alleged that she was acting "out of spite" and "motivated by a desire of financial gains". The following year, Malaysia’s high court awarded Tengku Fakhry RM6 million in damages after he filed a defamation suit over allegations of abuse against Manohara and her mother Daisy Fajarina. The scandal received widespread media attention.

Titles and honours

Titles

Tengku Fakhry was previously conferred the title of Tengku Temenggong of Kelantan in March 1997 by his father, Sultan Ismail Petra, but the title was stripped by his brother, Sultan Muhammad V, in September 2010. In April 2022, Tengku Fakhry was conferred the title of Tengku Bendahara of Kelantan by his brother, Sultan Muhammad V. In January 2024, he was proclaimed Tengku Mahkota of Kelantan by the Kelantan Royal Succession Council.

Honours

Note: * Both awards were rescinded in 2010. DK was reinstated some time in 2019, but the status of the SPMK award is unknown.

Ancestry