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    Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་ འཇིགས་མེད་རྡོ་རྗེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་མཆོག་, Wylie: jigs med rdo rje dbang phyug; 2 May 1928 – 21 July 1972) was...
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    state, similar to Sikkim. He was succeeded by his son, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. Jigme Wangchuck was born in 1905, at the Thinley Rabten Palace in Wangdue...
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    domestic product. Jigme Singye Wangchuck was born in Dechencholing Palace in Thimphu, Bhutan, on 11 November 1955. to Jigme Dorji Wangchuck and Ashi Kesang...
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    Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med ge sar rnam rgyal dbang phyug; born 21 February 1980) is...
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  • Jigme Ugyen Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུག; born 19 March 2020) is the second child of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan...
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  • marriage, he was also a member of the House of Wangchuck. The brother-in-law of Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Dorji was close to his kinsman and accompanied the...
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    Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med rnam rgyal dbang phyug; born 5 February 2016) is the first child and...
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  • Prince Gyaltshab Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (born 12 April 1986) is the third eldest Prince of Bhutan. His brother Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck became the king...
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    1926 – 24 March 1952. Jigme Dorji Wangchuck (b.1929–d.1972) "Third King"; r. 24 March 1952 – 24 July 1972. Jigme Singye Wangchuck (b.1955) "Fourth King";...
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    heir apparent to the Bhutanese throne, Jigme Ugyen, and Sonam Yangden. Jetsun Pema was born at Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Thimphu...
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    but would guide its foreign policy. Succeeded in 1952 by his son Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Bhutan began to slowly emerge from its isolation and began a program...
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  • Choden Wangchuck (born 23 January 1982), is a member of the royal family of Bhutan. She is a daughter of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and...
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  • (born 21 June 1959) is the third wife of the former Bhutanese king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. She is the current Queen Mother (Gyalyum Kude, literally meaning...
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  • Sonam Yangden Wangchuck (born 9 September 2023) is the third child of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan and his wife, Queen Jetsun Pema. She...
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    subsequent Kings of Bhutan: Jigme Wangchuck, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, and Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.[citation needed] Several...
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    former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who is married to four sisters all of whom were entitled to be called queen. Her father, Yab Dasho Ugyen Dorji (1925–2019)...
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    the trust of the people. Ugyen Wangchuck was born in Wangdicholing Palace, Jakar, Bumthang in 1862. His father, Jigme Namgyal, was the Druk Desi of Bhutan...
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    Kesang Choden (queen) (category Dorji family)
    1930) is the Queen Grandmother of Bhutan and the widow of the late Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. She participates in royal duties of her own accord. She is the...
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    The National Referral Hospital (full name Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital) is the main hospital of Bhutan, located in the capital of...
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    750°N 89.517°E / 27.750; 89.517 The Jigme Dorji National Park (JDNP), named after the late Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, is the second-largest National Park...
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  • 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...
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  • Jigme Wangchuck (born 11 November 1994) is a member of the royal family of Bhutan and is the youngest of the sons of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye...
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    as the capital of the Kingdom of Bhutan by the 3rd Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. The city extends in a north–south direction on the west bank of...
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    Nath Bose, Nand Lal Bose, Zakir Husain, Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck, and V. K. Krishna Menon, who were honoured in 1954. The 1954 statutes...
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    Singye Wangchuck and Queen Mother Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck. She is half-sister of the fifth King, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. She was educated at Lungtenzampa...
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    second version was introduced in 1956 for the visit of Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck to eastern Bhutan; it was based upon photos of its 1949 predecessor...
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  • Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck (born 10 January 1979) is a princess of Bhutan. She is the daughter of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and Queen...
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    son of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck from Queen Mother Ashi Dorji Wangmo Wangchuck. He has an older sister, Princess Ashi Sonam Dechen Wangchuck, as well as...
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  • Minister of Bhutan. Jigme Palden Dorji was assassinated amid a political struggle between modernist pro-Dorji and monarchist pro-Wangchuck factions. Topgay's...
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    centre. It was built in 1953 by the third king of Bhutan Druk Gyalpo Jigme Dorji Wangchuck. The palace lies at the northern end of the Thimphu Valley, on the...
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