| Nicknames: | "Mammy Maimunah", "Dulcie" |
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| Birthplace: | Grik, Perak, Malaysia |
| Death: | Died in Seremban, Negri Sembilan, Malaysia |
Immediate Family
- ex-husband
- daughter
- father
- mother
- sister
- sister
- brother
- brother
About Che Maimunah Abdullah (Dulcibella Campbell)
-Siti Zawiyah Mohammad Ali and her were best friends. She used to 'sleep-over' regularly at Siti Zawiyah Mohammad Ali's house in Rasah, Negri Sembilan.
-Ismail Ibrahim (Yussof Ismail's father) was entrusted at one time by the palace (Regent) to look after the royal children after her divorce. He set them up in a house which he bought from one of his in laws in Kuala Pilah, Negri Sembilan. The house does not exist anymore. The royal children knew him as 'Pakcik Mail'.
-It can be only assumed that Tunku Abdul Rahman and Dulcie Campbell fell in love with great intensity, for the couple decided to elope. It was clear from the start that Tuanku Muhammad would not approve, she was not of royal blood and after the succession difficulties both he and his father, Tuanku Antah, faced, he wanted his son to marry a wife of royal standing. The fact that she was not even Malay did not come up for consideration, she was not royalty and therefore not suitable.
Tunku Abdul Rahman must have been only too aware of the problem this relationship would encounter. So from Kuala Lumpur the couple took a train for Singapore where they intended to marry. The train made many stops along its southern-route, when it reached Seremban in Negri Sembilan the train stopped longer than usual, there then followed a commotion on the platform. Tunku Abdul Rahman looked out the window and, to his horror, saw several officials from the palace and amongst them was his younger brother, Tunku Nasir. Somehow word of his eloping with Dulcie must have reached the palace and his father must have then ordered the train searched when it stopped in Seremban on its way to Singapore. The future king of Malaya and his bride-to-be quickly scrambled into the toilet and hid.
The search was unsuccessful and the couple were married in Singapore. Tunku Abdul Rahman, then twenty-three, returned with his bride to Seri Menanti to face the family's wrath. They could, of course, do nothing about the marriage - it was a fait accompli. In order to marry a Muslim, Dulcie Campbell converted to Islam, she took on the Muslim name Maimunah.
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