A Malaysian sultan who has divorced the former Russian beauty queen he married 13 months ago has suggested that he may not be the father of a son she gave birth to in May.

Koh Tien Hua, a Singaporean lawyer for Sultan Muhammad V of Kelantan, 49, confirmed reports that the former Malaysian king had divorced Oksana Voevodina, 27.

He told the Straits Times: “There is no objective evidence as yet as to the biological father of the child.”

Mr Koh said that the sultan, whose wedding shocked Malaysian aristocracy, forcing him to abdicate from the rotating regency, had divorced Ms Voevodina using the Islamic device of talaq, saying three times that he intended to divorce her, in the presence of two competent