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Jigme Khesar Namgyal Wangchuk

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག
King of Bhutan
King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (edit).jpg
King of Bhutan
Reign 9 December 2006 – present
Coronation 6 November 2008
Predecessor Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Heir apparent Crown Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck
Prime Ministers
Born (1980-02-21) 21 February 1980 (age 37)
Kathmandu, Nepal
Spouse Jetsun Pema (m. 2011)
Issue Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck
House Wangchuck
Father Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Mother Tshering Yangdon
Religion Vajrayana Buddhism
Signature Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuckའཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག's signature
Kings of the House of Wangchuck
Ugyen Wangchuck, 1905.jpg Ugyen
Reign: 1907–1926
Bhutan-Jigme-Wangchuck.jpg Jigme
Reign: 1926–1952
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck Maharaja of Bhutan at the International Lowcost Housing Exhibition.jpg Jigme Dorji
Reign: 1952–1972
Jigme Singye Wangchuck.jpg Jigme Singye
Reign: 1972–2006
King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (edit).jpg Jigme Khesar Namgyel
Reign: 2006–present
Styles of
King of Bhutan
Emblem of Bhutan.svg
Reference style His Majesty
Spoken style Your Majesty
Alternative style Druk Gyalpo

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med ge sar rnam rgyal dbang phyug born 21 February 1980) is the current reigning Druk Gyalpo or "Dragon King" of the Kingdom of Bhutan. After his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne in his favour, he became King on 9 December 2006. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, an auspicious year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.

Khesar is the eldest son of the fourth Dragon King of Bhutan,Jigme Singye Wangchuck, and his third wife, Queen Tshering Yangdon. He has a younger sister, Princess Dechen Yangzom, and brother, Prince Jigme Dorji, as well as four half-sisters and three half-brothers.

After completing his higher secondary studies at Yangchenphug High School, Bhutan, Khesar studied abroad at Phillips Academy, Cushing Academy and Wheaton College, all in the United States, before graduating from Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where he completed the Foreign Service Programme and International Relations. He also did a course at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration in Mussoorie, India.

The Crown Prince, popularly known to the people of Bhutan as 'Dasho Khesar', accompanied his father in his many tours throughout the Kingdom to meet and speak to the people. He also officially represented Bhutan on several international events. On 8 May 2002, he represented Bhutan at the 27th UN General Assembly and made his first speech to the United Nations where he addressed issues related to the welfare of millions of children around the globe to world leaders. He attended Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 60th Anniversary Celebrations on 12–13 June 2006 in Bangkok along with royals from 25 countries. The youngest of the visiting royals, the 26-year-old prince caused a sensation, giving rise to a legion of female fans in Thailand. The Thai press dubbed him "Prince Charming," publishing his photograph and running stories about him as well as Bhutan for several weeks after the event.


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