Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck in March 2007
Signature of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Tibetan name
Tibetan script :
འཇིགས་ མེད་ གེ་ སར་ རྣམ་ རྒྱལ་ དབང་ ཕྱུག་
Wylie transliteration :
'Jigs med ge sar rnam rgyal dbang phyug
Other spellings:
Jigme Gesar Namgyel Wangchug

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ( Dzongkha : འཇིགས་ མེད་ གེ་ སར་ རྣམ་ རྒྱལ་ དབང་ ཕྱུག་ , Wylie transcription : 'Jigs med ge sar rnam rgyal dbang phyug, long form: Trongsa Penlop Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuk; * 21. February 1980 ) has been King of Bhutan since December 9, 2006 and successor to his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck . His title in Dzongkha is Mang-pos Bhur-ba'i rgyalpo, Druk Gyalpo . The monarch is the fifth Druk Gyalpo (dt. Dragon King) of the Wangchuck dynasty, which has ruled since 1907.

Youth and education

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck is the eldest son of the previous King Jigme Singye Wangchuck and Queen Ashi Tshering Yangdon Wangchuck . He received his education first with other children in Bhutan and then attended the boarding school Cushing Academy in Ashburnham , in north Worcester in the US state of Massachusetts . He then went to the private Wheaton College in Norton (Massachusetts) before the 2000 Magdalen College of Oxford University went to England. At Oxford he completed the Foreign Service Program and obtained a Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) In Politics . 2011 awarded him the Keio University , the honorary doctorate .

Prince and King of Bhutan

On May 8, 2002, the then Prince Wangchuck represented Bhutan at the 27th  General Assembly of the United Nations . In December 2005, King Jigme Singye Wangchuk, who had ruled until then, declared his intention to abdicate and to make his son his successor and to hand over responsibility to him as soon as possible.

On December 9, 2006, Jigme Singye Wangchuck handed over his position to his son. The change of the throne was officially announced on December 14, 2006. The royal coronation only took place two years later, on November 6, 2008, in the Tashichhod Dzong, followed by a celebration in the national stadium. Jigme Khesar was the youngest head of state in the world at the age of 28.

In May 2011, during a parliamentary session, he announced his engagement to the Bhutanese Jetsun Pema . The wedding with the ten years younger middle class took place on October 13, 2011. Their first child was born on February 5, 2016. His second son was born on March 19, 2020.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A Legacy of Two Kings. Bhutan's Department of Information Technology, archived from the original on March 27, 2012 ; Retrieved February 20, 2017 (Dzongkha).
  2. ^ The Early Years. Bhutan Department of Information Technology, archived from the original on August 25, 2011 ; accessed on February 20, 2017 (English).
  3. ↑ a b His Royal Highness Crown Prince Dasho Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. Biographical bullet points. www.raonline.ch, accessed on February 20, 2017 (English).
  4. ^ Keio University's Honorary Degree of Doctor: Conferred upon the King of Bhutan. Keiō University , accessed February 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ His Majesty Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck becomes the fifth Druk Gyalpo. Kuensel Online , December 15, 2006, archived from the original on January 2, 2010 ; accessed on February 20, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Lavish coronation for Bhutan king. BBC , November 6, 2008, accessed February 20, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Royal wedding in Bhutan. Spiegel Online, October 13, 2011, accessed February 20, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Tweet about the birth of the first child. Bhutan Broadcasting on Twitter, February 5, 2016, accessed February 20, 2017 .
  9. ↑ The royal couple of Bhutan are happy about their offspring. Retrieved April 11, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Wangchuck, Jigme Khesar Namgyel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wangchuck, Trongsa Penlop Jigme Khesar Namgyel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bhutanese nobleman, King of Bhutan
DATE OF BIRTH February 21, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Bhutan