Josephine Ruby Trevorrow

Enche’ Besar Hajah Khalsom binti Abdullah (born Josephine Ruby Trevorrow; 2 December 1935 – 1 June 2018) was the first wife of Sultan Iskandar and mother of Sultan Ibrahim, who is the current Sultan of Johor and then 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 also became the sixteenth Yang di-Pertuan Agong.

Khalsom
Enche’ Besar
Johor royal family in 1956, with Josephine Trevorrow third from right
Consort of the Crown Prince of Johor
Tenure8 May 1959 - 9 June 1962
PredecessorUngku Aminah
SuccessorTengku Zanariah
BornJosephine Ruby Trevorrow
(1935-12-02)2 December 1935
Cornwall, England
Died1 June 2018(2018-06-01) (aged 82)
London, England
Burial6 June 2018
Spouse
(m. 1956; div. 1962)
Issue
Regnal name
Enche’ Besar Hajah Khalsom binti Abdullah

She was born on 2 December 1935 in Cornwall in England, the daughter of Reginald George Trevorrow and 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 proclaimed the title of Tunku Mahkota (Crown Prince) of Johor, she was then known as Yang Amat Mulia Che’ Puan Khalsom Abdullah. This royal couple had four children:

On 9 June 1962 they divorced, shortly after Iskandar's second marriage to Tengku Zanariah, and she returned to England.

Later in 2010, her son Ibrahim, who had just become the Sultan of Johor, bestowed upon her the honorific form of address as Yang Amat Mulia Enche’ Besar Hajah Khalsom Abdullah, D.K., S.M.I.J. She died aged 82 on 1 June 2018 at King Edward VII's Hospital in London and was buried on 6 June in the Mahmoodiah Royal Mausoleum in Johor Bahru.

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