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2. Jigme Singye Wangchuck - Wikipedia

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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.

3. Wangchuck dynasty - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

4. Jigme Namgyal (Bhutan) - Wikipedia

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   Desi Jigme Namgyal was from Kurtoe Dungkar, from where the ancestry of Wangchuck Dynasty originates. [5] He was a descendant of Khedrup Kuenga Wangpo (b. 1505), the son of Tertön Pema Lingpa (1450-1521) and his second wife, Yum Bumdren, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] and Khedrup's consort, Wangmo, from Khadro Chodung clan, [ 8 ] who was a descendant of Tertön ...

5. Dorji family - Wikipedia

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   The fourth king of Bhutan Druk Gyalpo, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, as well as his son the current fifth king of Bhutan Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, are also members of the Dorji family and therefore also descendants of the royal family of Sikkim. [citation needed] The Dorji family is also the holder of the Bhutan House estate in Kalimpong, India.

6. History of Bhutan - Wikipedia

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   Jigme Dorji Wangchuck ruled until his death in July 1972 and was succeeded by his seventeen-year-old son, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. The close ties of the Wangchuck and Dorji families were reemphasized in the person of the new king, whose mother, Ashi Kesang Dorji (Ashi means Queen), was the sister of the lonchen, Jigme Palden Dorji. Jigme Singye ...

7. A Guide to Abdication in the 21st Century - AOL

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   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 ...