KUALA LUMPUR: Yang di-Pertuan Agong Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah yesterday attended the Royal Tea Party in conjunction with His Majesty’s Birthday Anniversary celebration at Istana Negara here.
Gracing the occasion were Raja Permaisuri Agong Tuanku Hajah Haminah, Tunku Panglima Besar Kedah Tan Sri Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah and Perak Raja Di Hilir Raja Iskandar Dzulkarnain Sultan Idris Shah and his wife Tunku Soraya Tuanku Abdul Halim Mu’adzam Shah.
Other guests included Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Abdul Razak and wife Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, Chief Justice Tun Arifin Zakaria and former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad and wife Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohd Ali.
At the party, which was attended by about 3,000 guests including Cabinet ministers and their wives as well as local and foreign dignitaries, His Majesty performed the ceremonial cake cutting.
There were also 29 other cakes with the royal birthday theme presented by 29 leading hotels throughout the country.
Local veteran singer Datuk Yusni Hamid and singer Mohammed Rauzan Alwi or better known as Roy entertained the guests with music provided by the Orkestra Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur.
Tuanku Abdul Halim and Tuanku Hajah Haminah later shook hands with the guests before leaving the reception. — Bernama