Russian model becomes Queen of Malaysia after marrying Muslim king

Oksana Voevodina, is now the ‘first lady’ of Malaysia following the wedding to Malaysia’s monarch Muhammad V of Kelantan. She married the king in a royal wedding ceremony in Moscow after reportedly converting to Islam earlier this year.

The beauty queen rose to fame when she was crowned Miss Moscow back in 2015 at the age of 22. Oksana – who has worked as a model in China and Thailand, and has posed in revealing pictures – is 24 years younger than the king.

The Malaysian monarch is known as Yang di-Pertuan Agong and is referred to as ‘Your Majesty’ – his full name is Tengku Muhammad Faris Petra ibni Tengku Ismail Petra.

The ceremony took place on November 22 in a concert hall in the upscale Moscow suburb of Barvikha.

“I think that the man must be the head of the family and of course shall not earn less than a woman,” keeping within tenets of the Muslim religion.

The wedding was alcohol-free and all food was halal.

The 49-year-old king was dressed in Malaysian national clothes, and the bride wore a glittering white wedding gown. She took the Muslim name Rihana and a picture of her in a hijab was posted on Twitter.

It’s believed the former beauty queen converted to Islam earlier this year. Little is known about Oksana apart from her victory in the Miss Moscow contest three years ago.

She is believed to be a graduate from the Faculty of Business at the elite Plekhanov Russian University of Economics. Her father Andrey Gorbatenko is an orthopaedic surgeon from Rostov-on-Don believed to be in his late 50s.

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