Brunei Sultan weds Azrinaz
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 20:
Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei married former TV3 newscaster Azrinaz Mazhar Hakim at a private ceremony here last night.
One of the invited guests said the ceremony, held at 8.30pm, was attended by family members, relatives and close friends of the couple.
HUSBAND & WIFE: Sultan Hassanal and Azrinaz
Azrinaz, or fondly known as Naz, started work as a broadcast journalist with TV3 in 1997. She won TV3’s Most Promising Journalist award in 2000 and received the MIIM Alumni Award in 2002.
She quit TV3 in May, saying that she wanted to "venture into other undertakings".
Rumours have been afloat that Azrinaz, 26, who used to appear on he Buletin Pagi, Berita Terkini and Buletin 1.30 news segments, had married the affable 58-year-old Sultan.
Sultan Hassanal had in February 2003 divorced his second wife, former stewardess Mariam Abdul Aziz. He had married Mariam, who is of Brunei, Japanese and Scottish parentage, in October 1981.