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Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med seng ge dbang phyug; [1] born 11 November 1955) is a member of the House of Wangchuck who was the king of Bhutan (Druk Gyalpo) from 1972 until his abdication in 2006.
Son of Jigme: Wangchuck: Jigme Singye. 4th Druk Gyalpo; ... () 11 November 1955 (age 69) 21 July 1972: 9 December 2006 (abdicated) Son of Jigme Dorji: Wangchuck:
Jigme Singye Wangchuck Bhutan: King: 1955 1972 16 Alfonso XIII Spain: King: 1886 1902 16 Assumed power following a 16-year regency. Tribhuvan Nepal King 1906 1923 17 Assumed power following a regency since 1911. Farouk I Egypt King: 1920 1937 17 Assumed power following a 1-year regency. Marie-Adélaïde Luxembourg: Grand Duchess: 1894 1912 17 ...
2006: King Jigme Singye Wangchuck of Bhutan. Abdication date: December 14, 2006. Age at abdication: 50 years old. Length of reign: 34 years. Succeeded by: His eldest son, King Jigme Khesar Namgyel ...
King Jigme Khesar was the youngest reigning monarch in the world, being 26 years old when he ascended the throne on 9 December 2006 after his father, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, abdicated the throne in his favour. [2] He was 28 years old when he was crowned on 6 November 2008. [5]
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (b.1929–d.1972) "Third King"; r. 24 March 1952 – 24 July 1972. Jigme Singye Wangchuck (b.1955) "Fourth King"; r. 24 July 1972 – 9 December 2006. Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (b.1980) "Fifth King"; r. 9 December 2006 – present. The ascendency of the Wangchuck family is deeply rooted in the historical politics of ...
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck [a] (born 21 February 1980) is 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 .
Jigme Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: ’jigs med dbang phyug; 1905 – 30 March 1952) was the (Dzongkha འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་གཉིས་པ) 2nd Druk Gyalpo or king of Bhutan from 26 August 1926, until his death. He pursued legal and infrastructural reform during his reign.