The Sultan of Brunei thanked for the support and attention for his popular son’s ten-day wedding

Bangkok, 19 January (EFE). Brunei’s Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah in a speech thanked the government for the support and attention for the wedding of his son, the popular Prince Abdul Matin, which extended last Tuesday after ten days of glittering celebrations. ,

The monarch assured in his speech on Thursday that the royal family is “inspired” by the joy shown by the population and the presence of foreign guests at his son’s wedding, including members of the royal families of Jordan, Saudi Arabia or Bhutan. As the leaders of Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore.

“Which shows how well-preserved the customs of Brunei are despite the passage of time,” he said, according to local newspaper Borneo Bulletin.

The wedding of Prince Abdul Matin of Brunei, an Instagram star known for photos of his glamorous life, with almost 2.5 million followers, and his compatriot Anisha Rosa ended with an elaborate Muslim ritual this Tuesday after ten days of celebration in the Sultanate .

The rituals, carried out between 7 and 16 January, included a blessing of the couple by the family on Wednesday and an official wedding by Muslim custom on Thursday of the previous week, which was attended by the prince (32), but not by the bride (29). year), who was represented by a male relative according to tradition.

But the height of the celebrations was on Sunday when the couple’s procession in a Rolls-Royce passed in front of thousands of people on the streets and a reception was held at the royal palace, attended by foreign guests.

The charming pair bring a touch of modernity to the Sultanate’s traditional atmosphere, as seen in photos shared by Prince Mateen on Instagram, where he has more followers than the country’s population (445,000 inhabitants).

Thus, the young man appears in photographs wearing elegant suits with the Eiffel Tower in the background, playing polo, flying in fighter planes and even showing off his abs.

In contrast to the modern image of the young man, Brunei – which is home to large oil and gas reserves – is an ultra-conservative country that considers the death penalty for homosexual relations between men in addition to other punishments based on Sharia or Islamic law. Does. However, a de facto moratorium on the death penalty remains in place.

A legislative reform of the penal code in 2019 ended the conservative turn of this Muslim nation in Southeast Asia, ruled by Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah, one of the world’s richest men and who serves as the supreme representative of Islam in the country. Was. ,

The Sultan has ruled the conservative Islamic nation since 1967 and was appointed prime minister following independence from the United Kingdom in 1984.