[2] According to the Portuguese chronicler Mendez Pinto, she came to the throne in 1584 as a sister of the murdered Patani king after twenty years of instability in the country.
There was apparently a lack of male heirs as a number of them were murdered in this period of political turbulence and violence.
The first Dutch Company agents visited this region of what is now southern Thailand during her reign in 1602, while the English arrived in 1612.
According to Jacob van Neck's writing in 1604, he reported a relatively prosperous state under Raja Hijau, who was "one well-disposed to merchants".
An Englishman Peter Floris who visited Patani in 1612–1613 described the queen as a 'comely oldewoman' and 'tall of person and full of majestie, having in all the Indies not seenemany lyke unto hir'.
Patani also become a centre of culture, producing high quality works of music, dance, drama and handicraft.