Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

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

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 Cushing Academy in Ashburnham, north of Worcester, Massachusetts. He then went to the private Wheaton College in Norton (Massachusetts ) before he went to Magdalen College, Oxford University in England in 2000. At Oxford, he completed the Foreign Service Programme and achieved a Master of Philosophy ( M.Phil. ) In politics. In 2011 he was awarded the Keio University honorary doctorate.

Prince and King of Bhutan

On 8 May 2002, the then Prince Wangchuck of Bhutan represented at the 27th United Nations General Assembly. In December 2005, the hitherto reigning King Jigme Singye Wangchuk declared his intention to resign and allow his son to succeed, and to give him the responsibility as soon as possible.

On December 9, 2006 Jigme Singye Wangchuck handed over his office to his son. Was officially announced the change of ruler on December 14, 2006. Solemn coronation of the king was not until nearly two years later, on 6 November 2008, in Tashichhod Dzong followed by ceremony at the National Stadium. Jigme Khesar at this time was at age 28 the youngest head of state in the world.

In May 2011 he gave during a parliamentary session known his engagement to Jetsun Pema of Bhutanerin. The wedding of the ten years his junior Civil took place on 13 October 2011.