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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.
Prince Jigme Dorji wed Yeatso Lhamo on 17 October 2013 at the Domkhar Dzong (the Summer Palace) [2] in Chumey, Bumthang, the maternal home of the bride.. Ashi Yeatso Lhamo Wangchuck is the daughter of Yab Dhondup Gyaltshen and Yum Sonam Choki, [citation needed] and she is also the elder sister of Her Majesty Queen Ashi Jetsun Pema Wangchuck, the Druk Gyaltsuen.
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.
Jigme Singye Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med seng ge dbang phyug; [1] born 11 November 1955), is the fourth Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) of Bhutan, reigning from 1972 to 2006. He was also responsible for the development of new policies in the environment and ...
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck [a] (born 21 February 1980) is the 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 .
Dechencholing Palace was built in 1953 after the coronation of the third King of Bhutan, Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, following the death of his father, Druk Gyalpo Jigme Wangchuck, in 1952. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The third king's son Jigme Singye Wangchuck was born here on 11 November 1955. [ 8 ]
Prince Dasho Ugyen Jigme Wangchuck (Dzongkha: ཨོ་རྒྱན་འཇིགས་མེད་དབང་ཕྱུག, born 11 November 1994) [1] is a member of the royal family of Bhutan and is the youngest of the sons of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and his wife, Queen Mo</></ref>ther Ashi Tshering Pem Wangchuck.
Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་, Wylie: jigs med rdo rje dbang phyug; 2 May 1928 [2] [3] – 21 July 1972) was the 3rd Druk Gyalpo of Bhutan.