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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck [a] (born 21 February 1980) is the King of Bhutan.His reign began in 2006 after his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, a year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.
Thus, while kings of Bhutan are known as Druk Gyalpo ("Dragon King"), the Bhutanese people call themselves the Drukpa, meaning "people of Druk (Bhutan)". The current sovereign of Bhutan is Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, the fifth Druk Gyalpo. [2] He wears the Raven Crown, which is the official crown worn by the kings of Bhutan.
These brand-new photos of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck’s family are totally frame-worthy. The Bhutanese royals recently shared a series of never-before-seen pictures, featuring the 40 ...
Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med rnam rgyal dbang phyug; born 5 February 2016) [1] is the first child and heir apparent of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan and his wife, Queen Jetsun Pema. He has been the Crown Prince of Bhutan ...
Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med seng ge dbang phyug; [1] born 11 November 1955), is the fourth Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) of Bhutan, reigning from 1972 to 2006. He is the father of the present King of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuck.
Princess Sonam Dechan Wangchuck (Dzongkha: བསོད་ནམས་བདེ་ཆེན་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: bsod nams bde chen dbang phyug, born 5 August 1981) is a princess of Bhutan. She is the daughter of the Fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and Queen Mother Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck.
[5] Jigme Namgyal and Pema Choki had three children: Dasho Thinley Tobgay (b. 1857), 22nd Penlop of Paro. Dasho Ugyen Wangchuck, King of Bhutan. Ancestor of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. Ashi Yeshay Choden, wife of Dasho Chimi Dorji, Dzongpon of Thimphu. Ancestor of the following Queens consorts of Bhutan: Phuntsho Choden Wangchuck.