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Palden thondup Namgyal was born on 23 May 1923 at the Royal Palace, Park Ridge, Gangtok. [1]At six, he became a student at St. Joseph's Convent in Kalimpong, [2] but had to terminate his studies due to attacks of malaria.
The son from the first marriage of Palden Thondup Namgyal, Wangchuk Namgyal (Sikkimese: དབང་ཕྱུག་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; born 1 April 1953), was named the 13th Chogyal after his father's death on 29 January 1982, [6] but the position no longer confers any official authority.
Chogyal Wangchuk Tenzing Namgyal (Sikkimese: སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: stobs-rgyal dbang-phyug bstan-'dzin rnam-rgyal; born 1 April 1953) is an Indian former prince who is the second son of Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last sovereign king of Sikkim.
She was termed Her Highness The Crown Princess of Sikkim and became the Gyalmo of Sikkim at Palden Thondup Namgyal's coronation in 1965. [2] She is the first American-born Queen Consort. [3] In 1975 Namgyal was deposed and Sikkim merged into India as a result of internal turmoil, Indian military intervention and a referendum.
The Nepali language song Jahan Bagcha Teesta Rangeet was released 4 April 1970 to mark the birthday of the then Chogyal Palden Thondup Namgyal. The song became very popular and was sometimes erroneously cited as the Sikkimese national anthem. [2] Following a referendum in 1975, Sikkim became a state of India and the monarchy was abolished. The ...
Palden Thondup Namgyal, last hereditary ruler of Sikkim, husband of Hope Cooke; Ngawang Namgyal, founder of Bhutan; Tashi Namgyal, ruler of Sikkim from 1914 to 1963; Thutob Namgyal, who transferred Sikkim's capital to Gangtok in 1894; Tshudpud Namgyal, longest-reigning king of Sikkim (from 1793 to 1863); regained independence from Nepal in 1815
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Prince Palden Thondup Namgyal, second son of the Founder, along with Dewan N.K. Rustumji and Mr. V.N. Langer formed an excellent team to reorganize the school on public school lines, and they were the people who were the main architects of Tashi Namgyal Academy. A Governing Body for the administration, management and control of Sir Tashi ...