Tengku Amir Nasser Ibrahim Shah was born as
Tengku Amir Nasser Ibrahim Shah bin Tengku Ibrahim on 25 August 1986 in
Kuantan,
Pahang. He is the tenth child of Tengku Ibrahim bin Tengku Abu Bakar, the
Tengku Arif Bendahara of Pahang, from his third wife,
Czarina Raymond Abdullah. His father died on 31 May 1987, when Tengku Amir was one year old. Following this, the newlywed royal couple and his first cousin, Tengku Abdullah and Tunku Azizah Aminah Maimunah Iskandariah, adopted him as their son. Tengku Amir spent his childhood between Pahang and
Kuala Lumpur and received his early education at the
Alice Smith School in Kuala Lumpur. In 2005, he enrolled at
Oxford Brookes University, where he obtained a
Bachelor's degree in Business, majoring in Marketing and Management, graduating in 2008. Following his undergraduate studies, he entered the Commissioning Course at the
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst as part of Intake 083 and was commissioned as a
second lieutenant in 2009. In 2010, he pursued
postgraduate studies at the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, where he earned a
Master's degree in Islamic Societies and Cultures. ==Military career==