And it is confirmed: The marriage between Sultan Muhammad V, 49, the Sultan of Kelantan, and Oksana Voevodina, 27, Russian model and beauty queen, did not end in Singapore, contrary to media reports originating from Malaysia.

In response to media queries, the Syariah Court Singapore said on July 19 it did not have records of any divorce filed by the couple.

Syariah Court Singapore wrote:

We refer to your email enquiry dated 17 July 2019 on confirmation of Sultan of Kelantan’s divorce.

Please be informed that there are no records of divorce filed by the couple at Syariah Court Singapore.

How did Singapore get implicated?

News of Syariah Court Singapore being the venue where the divorce got filed originated from Malaysia media, Astro Awani, on July 15.

There was apparently unverified official documents circulating online stating that the official filing date was June 22 in Singapore, with the motion being approved on July 1.

Then the churn kicked in as other Malaysian media reiterated the information, such as New Straits Times on July 17.

The entire NST article was then republished wholesale on the same day by Singapore's Today, but it has been amended with this entire paragraph removed:

Sources confirmed that the divorce was finalised on July 1, following the filing of documents at the Singapore Syariah Court on June 22.

Why did Syariah Court Singapore get implicated?

No one can say for certain but this could be a tactic to send media and Internet sleuths the wrong way to dig for records that don't exist.

Or simply assumed to be true and let others move on from this detail.

Because the bigger question will then be: If the Sultan and his Russian wife did not get divorced in Singapore as reported in Malaysia media, did they then get divorced for real?

Or if they did not get divorce in Singapore, did they do so in Malaysia?

And if they did so in Malaysia, where are the records kept?

In which state?

This ambiguity has not been resolved, given the nature of this high-profile royal marriage in the first place.

Didn't the couple just have a child?

If the June 22, 2019 filing of divorce date is correct, it means the the pair have split just months after their wedding and the birth of their first child in May.

When did rumours of a separation start?

Unbelievably, rumours of a break-up took place back in Jan. 24, 2019.

UK tabloid Mirror broke the news of the rumoured split.

This was at a time when the Malaysian public just found out two months earlier in November 2018 that the Sultan of Kelantan had just married a Russian woman half his age.

What is the timeline of the whole saga?

The whole thing is pretty insane.

The marriage had lasted for just over a year.

The couple got married on June 7, 2018.

Photos of their marriage went viral only in November 2018.

Rumours of their separation appeared in January 2019.

Their son, Ismail Leon, was born in May 2019.

And Voevodina was still posting Instagram updates of her love story in July 2019.

All these just seven months after the pair's surprise marriage in Moscow.

After news of the divorce were widely reported, Voevodina posted a new video on July 18.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B0Bnj6YlZDx/

Sultan appeared in latest video

The Sultan said in the video that although he and Voevodina, a former Miss Moscow, do not share many hobbies, "there is a lot of understanding".

He also listed children as their family's "priority number one, because the children carry on your legacy".

"For me, the two most important (things) are patience and understanding," he added in the video.

"Love is good... But after 15, 20 years, the patience and understanding is going to take over the love."

It is not clear when and where the video was filmed, but it has garnered over 438,000 views.

Not first marriage (sort of)

In 2004, the Sultan, then 35 years old, was the Crown Prince of Kelantan.

He had reportedly married Kangsadal Pipitpakdee, 24, Malaysia's The Star newspaper reported.

She is a descendant of Muslim royalty in Pattani province, southern Thailand.

When the ruler became Agong in 2017, the media reported that he was the first King to reign without a queen consort.

It was unclear what happened to his marriage to the Thai woman.

Ambiguity appears to be a common thread.

Even the ages of the Sultan and Voevodina have been variously reported in media reports as 50 and 26 respectively.