Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་;
Dragon King of the Kingdom of Bhutan
	Wangchuck in 2019
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	See list Khandu Wangchuk; Kinzang Dorji; Jigme Thinley; Tshering Tobgay; Lotay Tshering;
Born	21 February 1980 (age 44); Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital, Kathmandu, Bagmati Zone, Kingdom of Nepal (present-day Bagmati Province, Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal)
Spouse	Jetsun Pema (m. 2011)
Issue	Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck; Jigme Ugyen Wangchuck; Sonam Yangden Wangchuck;
House	Wangchuck
Father	Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Mother	Tshering Yangdon
Religion	Drukpa Kagyu
Signature
Education	Wheaton College; Magdalen College, Oxford

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med ge sar rnam rgyal dbang phyug;^[3] born 21 February 1980) is the Druk Gyalpo (Dzongkha: Dragon King), the monarch of the Kingdom of Bhutan.^[4] After his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne, he became the monarch on 9 December 2006. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, a year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.

^ "Rspnbhutan". Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
^ "I have emotional tie with Nepal as i was born in there; Bhutan King". Retrieved 5 June 2022.
^ "A Legacy of Two Kings". Bhutan Department of Information Technology. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2008.
^ Das, Biswajyoti (18 December 2006). "Bhutan's new king committed to democracy". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 November 2008.

[1] "Rspnbhutan". Archived from the original on 2 March 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2016.

[2] "I have emotional tie with Nepal as i was born in there; Bhutan King". Retrieved 5 June 2022.

[gov-legacy-3] "A Legacy of Two Kings". Bhutan Department of Information Technology. Archived from the original on 27 March 2012. Retrieved 6 November 2008.

[4] Das, Biswajyoti (18 December 2006). "Bhutan's new king committed to democracy". The Washington Post. Retrieved 1 November 2008.

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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་
Dragon King of the Kingdom of Bhutan
Wangchuck in 2019
King of Bhutan
Reign	9 December 2006 – present
Coronation	6 November 2008
Predecessor	Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Heir apparent	Crown Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck^[1]
Prime Ministers	See list Khandu Wangchuk Kinzang Dorji Jigme Thinley Tshering Tobgay Lotay Tshering

Born	(1980-02-21) 21 February 1980 (age 44) Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital, Kathmandu, Bagmati Zone, Kingdom of Nepal (present-day Bagmati Province, Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal)^[2]
Spouse	Jetsun Pema (m. 2011)
Issue	Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck Jigme Ugyen Wangchuck Sonam Yangden Wangchuck
House	Wangchuck
Father	Jigme Singye Wangchuck
Mother	Tshering Yangdon
Religion	Drukpa Kagyu
Signature

Education	Wheaton College Magdalen College, Oxford