New Malaysian king crowned amid reports of predecessor's divorce from Russian elegance queen

Malaysia has put in a new British-expert king after the shock abdication of the previous monarch to marry a former Russian elegance queen. 

Sultan Abdullah Ri'ayatuddin of Pahang, 60, who became proficient at Sandhurst military academy and Oxford institution, and who served on the FIFA Council, football’s highest governing physique, changed into topped as the 16th Malaysian king on Tuesday in a ceremony steeped in royal tradition.

Malaysia is the best nation on earth with an elected monarch, with the heads of nine royal households rotating as king every five years. 

Sultan Abdullah, who used his coronation speech to demand an conclusion to racial divisions, acceded the throne after his predecessor stepped down after having served only two years in energy. 

Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan, 49, abdicated in January this 12 months, simply months after marrying Oksana Voyevodina, 27, a former Russian attractiveness queen in a secret ceremony in Barvikha, a ritzy Moscow suburb domestic to a lot of Russia's rich and robust.

with the aid of doing so, he grew to be the primary monarch to resign when you consider that Malaysia won independence from Britain in 1957, and the Istana Negara, the royal palace, refused to show any details of his controversial circulation. 

Ms Voyevodina, who become topped omit Moscow in 2015, transformed to Islam, taking the name Rihana Oksana Petra.