Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II had an easy rapport with Malaysia’s father of independence Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj, recalled Tunku Sofiah Jewa, the paternal niece of the country’s first prime minister.

There was one occasion when Her Majesty personally served him a piece of cake from the pantry when Tunku visited the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh privately in Buckingham Palace, United Kingdom.

Tunku himself sent a bunch of ‘pisang emas’...