Josephine trevorrow biography

Former Wife of Sultan Iskandar of Johor, Malaysia (1935–2018)

Almarhumah Enche’ BesarHajahKhalsom binti Abdullah (Jawi: انچئ بسر حاجه كلثوم بنت عبد الله; born Josephine Ruby Trevorrow; 2 December 1935 – 1 June 2018) was the first wife of Sultan Iskandar^[1] and mother of Sultan Ibrahim, who is the current Sultan of Johor and the seventeenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia) since 31 January 2024.

One of her daughters, Tunku Azizah, married Sultan Abdullah, the current Sultan of Pahang, who was previously the sixteenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

She was born on 2 December 1935 in Cornwall in England, the only daughter of Reginald George Trevorrow, a textile manufacturer from Torquay, Cornwall, and his wife Ruby May Alderman.

She met Iskandar while he was studying in England. After that she converted to Islam and changed her name to Khalsom binti Abdullah; they married on 5 January 1956. On 8 May 1959, after her husband was proclaimed T