Hassanal Bolkiah — English Wikipedia

English Wikipedia article on Hassanal Bolkiah (born 1946); used for entity facts only. It recounts his Brunei Town birth as the eldest son of Omar Ali Saifuddien III, his schooling at the Victoria Institution in Kuala Lumpur and at Sandhurst, his proclamation as the 29th Sultan on 5 October 1967 and his coronation on 1 August 1968, Brunei's independence on 1 January 1984 with himself as prime minister under the Melayu Islam Beraja philosophy, the Syariah Penal Code controversy of 2014–2019, and his Golden Jubilee in 2017.

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