A lady of many colours

WHEN she was only 16, Tengku Puan Nor Saadah Almarhum Sultan Alaeddin Suleiman Shah left the confines of her protected childhood at Istana Makhota, Klang, to become the wife of a man 23 years her senior.

But the gutsy Selangor princess took it in her stride and became a pillar of strength and a capable partner to her civil servant husband Raja Tun Sir Uda Al-Haj Raja Muhammad, who ­eventually became the first Penang Governor serving from 1957 to 1967.