Tan Sri Tunku Sallehuddin Ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah
Tunku sallehuddin menggantikan raja muda kedah sebelum itu tunku abdul malik almarhum sultan badlishah 86 yang mangkat pada 29 nov 2015 di hospital sultanah bahiyah hsb di sini akibat kegeringan.
Tan sri tunku sallehuddin ibni almarhum sultan badlishah. Sebaik selesai ditabalkan baginda sultan kini bergelar al aminul karim sultan sallehuddin ibni almarhum sultan badlishah. Tunku sofia tunku mahmud tunku abdul malik ibni almarhum sultan badlishah 24 september 1929 29 november 2015 ialah pewaris takhta yang belum pasti fn 1 kepada takhta kedah. Baginda diputerakan di istana kerabat diraja kedah istana anak bukit pada zaman penjajahan british. Baginda ialah putera kepada sultan badlishah dan adinda kepada sultan abdul halim.
Sultan kedah sultan sallehuddin ibni almarhum sultan badlishah hari ini selamat ditabal sebagai sultan kedah ke 29 dalam satu istiadat pertabalan yang berlangsung di balairung seri istana anak bukit di sini. He was born in the istana anak bukit where he was raised. Alor setar tan sri tunku sallehuddin ibni almarhum sultan badlishah has been announced as the 29th sultan of kedah succeeding his brother the late sultan tuanku abdul halim mu adzam shah. The proclamation and pledge of loyalty ceremony was held in conjunction with the return of the kedah sultan to the state after the end of his five year term on monday as the 14th yang di pertuan agong.
He succeeded the throne upon the death of his father sultan abdul hamid halim shah he was the elder half brother of the first prime minister of malaysia tunku abdul rahman. Tan sri tunku sallehuddin ibni almarhum sultan badlishah dan toh puan temenggong puan sri tengku maliha tengku ariff berkenan hadir pada majlis pemasyhuran pelantikan duli yang teramat mulia raja muda kedah di istana anak bukit pada khamis. Bonda baginda tengku asma merupakan puteri kedua sultan terengganu sultan sulaiman badrul alam shah. Tan sri tunku sallehuddin ibni almarhum sultan badlishah 74 was proclaimed as the raja muda of kedah at a ceremony steeped in royal custom at balai penghadapan istana anak bukit here.
Sultan sallehuddin diputerakan pada 30 april 1942 pada zaman pemerintahan paduka nenda baginda sultan abdul hamid halim shah. Tuanku sallehuddin was born as tunku mahmud sallehuddin in alor setar on 30 april 1942 the ninth of 14 siblings to sultan badlishah the 27th sultan of kedah and sultanah asma daughter of sultan sulaiman of terengganu.