She had converted to Islam that same year, in April 2018 and changed her name to Rihana Oxana Petra adopting the family name of Muhammad V.[7] While the purported wedding was widely covered and discussed on social media, as of January 2019 no official statement has been released to confirm or deny that matter.
[8][9] With effect on 6 January 2019, Sultan Muhammad abdicated as Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, almost three years before his term of office was due to end; commentators suggested this was prompted by opposition to his marriage to Voevodina.
[13] During the TV interview with Russian presenter and top female opposition politician Ksenia Sobchak, Voevodina revealed that the Czech wife of Muhammad V, Diana Petra or Jana Jakubková (Diana's birth name) reached out to her and her father insulting and threatening her son in June 2019.
[15][16][17][18] After Voevodina had posted photos of their life together on her Instagram account, the Kelantan palace finally issued an official statement on 6 September 2019 rebuking the matter as untrue by condemning postings of the monarch's private life on social media as inappropriate and defamatory.
The sultan somehow expressed 'regret' regarding his personal choices of his private life that has caused people's confusion, albeit without mentioning any names; apparently he acknowledged the marriage did occur.