Sallehuddin of Kedah

Al-Aminul Karim Sultan Sallehuddin ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah (Jawi: ;born 30 April 1942) is the 29th Sultan of Kedah, Malaysia. He was proclaimed Sultan on 12 September 2017, upon the death of his elder half-brother, Sultan Abdul Halim Mu'adzam Shah. From soldier to Sultan, as the fourth son (that lived to adulthood) of Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, he was never expected to inherit the throne. But with the passing of his elder brother, Tunku Annuar, suddenly made way for him to eventually became the next heir to the sultanate (behind his elder half-brother, the then-Raja Muda of Kedah, Tunku Abdul Malik). Biography Sultan Sallehuddin was born (as Tunku Mahmud Sallehuddin) and raised in Istana Anak Bukit, Alor Setar, Kedah. He was the ninth of 14 siblings, to Sultan Badlishah, the 27th Sultan of Kedah, and Sultanah Asma, daughter of Sultan Sulaiman of Terengganu. Sultan Sallehuddin was educated at the Alor Merah Malay School and continued his studies at the Sultan Abdul Hamid College. He graduated with a higher education from the College of Military Engineering, Poona in India.