Today is our 39th wedding anniversary. Marina and I got married on the 14th of April 1973, exactly 39 years ago. Marina was 14 and I was 17 when we first met. We got married five years later. I thought you might want to see some pictures of our journey in life.

 

NO HOLDS BARRED

Raja Petra Kamarudin

My first photo, circa 1950

 

My dream, to be a sailor

 

“Anakanda dengan anak Raja Kamarudin dalam rumahnya, adapun rambut budak ini perang semacam anak orang putih. Anakanda cuba hendak bawa balik ke Malaya, budak ini hendak kechek hanya sama Raja Kamarudin,” wrote the then Raja Muda of Selangor to his father, Sultan Hisamuddin Alam Shah.

 

“Kekanda dengan anak Raja Kamarudin, dekat dengan motorkar kekanda, bernama Raja Petra,” wrote the then Raja Muda of Selangor (who later became Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Shah).

 

I now have a brother, Raja Idris — our first family portrait, circa 1954

 

That was me when Marina and I first met

 

And that was Marina when we first met

 

Just before we got married

 

The first motorcycle that I rode in 1967 — I almost knocked Marina down with it and that was how we first met

 

The akad nikah ceremony

 

 

My Welsh mother, Barbara Mabel Parnell @ Bariah, doing the renjis during the bersanding ceremony

 

AND NOW 

At the Lake District, 2010

 

Marina and daughter Sara on graduation day, 2011

 

Isn’t this the battle cry for ‘Bersih 3.0’?

 

Marina’s birthday, 2010

 

In London, 2009

 

New Year’s Eve 2011

AND THE SONG THAT MARINA AND I DANCED TO IN 1968

Righteous Brothers – UNCHAINED MELODY

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