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Ugyen Jigme Wangchuck
Prince ''Dasho'' Ugyen 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 Wangchuck and his wife, Queen Mother ''Ashi'' Tshering Pem Wangchuck. Royal duties Ugyen Jigme Wangchuck has participated in a large amount of official royal matters including foreign affairs meetings. From 2008 Prince ''Dasho'' Ugyen Jigme Wangchuck has been educated in the exclusive Swiss boarding school, Institut Le Rosey. He attended the Early Learning Center in Thimphu, Bhutan, before going to Switzerland. He has now graduated high school. He now attends Central Saint Martins. He has two full sisters, Princess ''Ashi'' Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck, and Princess ''Ashi'' Kesang Choden Wangchuck, as well as 7 other half-siblings, including Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. He is active member of ''DeSuups'', an organization made up of volunteers who go to the areas affected by some cataclysm or in charity ...
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Thimphu
Thimphu (; dz, ཐིམ་ཕུག ) is the capital city, capital and largest city of Bhutan. It is situated in the western central part of Bhutan, and the surrounding valley is one of Bhutan's ''dzongkhags'', the Thimphu District. The ancient capital city of Punakha was replaced by Thimphu as capital in 1955, and in 1961 Thimphu was declared 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 the valley formed by the Wang Chhu, which flows out into India as the Raidāk River. Thimphu is the List of capital cities by altitude, fifth highest capital in the world by altitude and ranges in altitude from to .Brown, p. 97Palin, p. 245 Unusually for a capital city, Thimphu does not have its own airport, instead relying on the Paro Airport (connected by road some away). Thimphu, as the political and Economy of Bhutan, economic center of Bhutan, has a dominant agriculture and livestoc ...
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Commemorative Silver Jubilee Medal Of His Majesty The King (02061999)
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1994 Births
File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in the Baltic Sea; Nelson Mandela casts his vote in the 1994 South African general election, in which he was elected South Africa's first President of South Africa, president, and which effectively brought Apartheid to an end; NAFTA, which was signed in 1992, comes into effect in Canada, the United States, and Mexico; The first passenger rail service to utilize the newly-opened Channel tunnel; The 1994 FIFA World Cup is held in the United States; Skull, Skulls from the Rwandan genocide, in which over half a million Tutsi people were massacred by Hutu, Hutus., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 1994 Winter Olympics rect 200 0 400 200 1994 Northridge earthquake, Northridge earthquake rect 400 0 600 200 Sinking of the MS Estonia rect 0 200 300 40 ...
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Succession To The Bhutanese Throne
The line of succession to the throne of Bhutan is based on the constitution of Bhutan. Currently the line of succession is according to male-preference cognatic primogeniture with males preceding females who are in the same degree of kinship. If the heir apparent has reached the age of majority of 21, the monarch would step down at age 65. If the heir apparent and the nearest people in the line of succession are deemed unsuitable, it is up to the monarch to decide who will be the next heir. If the monarch violates the constitution, they must abdicate. Order of succession * King Jigme Singye, The Fourth Druk Gyalpo (b. 1955) ** King Jigme Khesar Namgyel, The Fifth Druk Gyalpo (b. 1980) ***(1) Prince Jigme Namgyel, The Druk Gyalsey (b. 2016) ***(2) Prince Jigme Ugyen (b. 2020) **(3) Prince Jigyel Ugyen (b. 1984) **(4) Prince Khamsum Singye (b. 1985) **(5) Prince Jigme Dorji, The Gyaltshab (b. 1986) ***(6) Ashi Decho Pema (b. 2014) **(7) Prince Ugyen Jigme (b. 1994) **(8) Pri ...
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Kabney
A kabney ( Dzongkha: བཀབ་ནེ་; Wylie: ''bkab-ne'') is a silk scarf worn as a part of the gho, the traditional male attire in Bhutan.Gyurme Dorje. ''Footprint Bhutan''. Footprint, 004 . Section "National dress", p 261 It is raw silk, normally with fringes. Kabney is worn over the traditional coat gho; it runs from the left shoulder to the right hip, and is worn at special occasions or when visiting a dzong. Kabney is also referred as ''Bura'', which means wild silk. The use of gho and kabney is encouraged in Bhutan as a part of driglam namzha (or ''driklam namzhak''), the official code of etiquette and dress code of Bhutan. Gho is compulsory for schoolboys and government officials.Kabney & Patang
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The female traditional dress is called

Order Of The Golden Fleece Rib
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King Jigme Singye Wangchuck Commemorating The King%27s 60th Birthday
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the title may refer to tribal kingship. Germanic kingship is cognate with Indo-European The Indo-European languages are a language family native to the overwhelming majority of Europe, the Iranian plateau, and the northern Indian subcontinent. Some European languages of this family, English, French, Portuguese, Russian, Dutc ... traditions of tribal rulership (c.f. Indic ''rājan'', Gothic ''reiks'', and Old Irish ''rí'', etc.). *In the context of classical antiquity, king may translate in Latin as ''rex (king), rex'' and in Greek as ''archon'' or ''basileus''. *In classical European feudalism, the title of ''king'' as the ruler of a ''kingdom'' is understood to be the highest rank in the feudal order, potentially subject, at least no ...
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Centenary Of The Monarchy Commemorative Medal
{{other uses, Centennial (other), Centenary (other) A centennial, or centenary in British English, is a 100th anniversary or otherwise relates to a century, a period of 100 years. Notable events Notable centennial events at a national or world-level include: * Centennial Exhibition, 1876, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. First official World's Fair in the United States, celebrating the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia. About 10 million visitors attended, equivalent to about 20% of the population of the United States at the time. The exhibition ran from May 10, 1876, to November 10, 1876. (It included a monorail.) * New Zealand Centennial Exhibition, 1939–1940, celebrated one hundred years since the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840 and the subsequent mass European settlement of New Zealand. 2,641,043 (2.6 million) visitors attended the exhibition, which ran from 8 November 1939 until 4 May 1940. ...
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King Jigme Khesar Investiture Medal 2008
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen, which title is also given to the consort of a king. *In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contemporary indigenous peoples, the title may refer to tribal kingship. Germanic kingship is cognate with Indo-European traditions of tribal rulership (c.f. Indic '' rājan'', Gothic '' reiks'', and Old Irish ''rí'', etc.). *In the context of classical antiquity, king may translate in Latin as '' rex'' and in Greek as ''archon'' or ''basileus''. *In classical European feudalism, the title of ''king'' as the ruler of a ''kingdom'' is understood to be the highest rank in the feudal order, potentially subject, at least nominally, only to an emperor (harking back to the client kings of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire). *In a modern context, the title may refer to the ruler of one of a number of modern monarchies (either absolute or constitutional). The title of ''king'' is us ...
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Silver Jubilee Of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck
The Silver Jubilee of Jigme Singye Wangchuck was a celebration of 25 years of his reign. Jigme Singye Wangchuck was the 4th King of Bhutan ('' Druk Gyalpo'') until he was succeeded by his son, Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ( dz, འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, ; born 21 February 1980) is the Druk Gyalpo (Dzongkha: Dragon King) of the Kingdom of Bhutan. After his ... on 9 December 2006. * Commemorative Silver Jubilee Medal of King Jigme Singye Wangchuck (02/06/1999). References Wangchuck dynasty Orders, decorations, and medals of Bhutan 1999 in Bhutan Awards established in 1999 Silver jubilees Historical events in Bhutan {{Bhutan-stub ...
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Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck ( dz, འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, ; born 21 February 1980) is the Druk Gyalpo ( Dzongkha: Dragon King) of the Kingdom of Bhutan. After his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne in his favor, he became the monarch on 9 December 2006. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, a year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan. Early life and education Khesar was born 21 February 1980 at Paropakar Maternity and Women's Hospital in Kathmandu. He is the eldest son of the fourth Dragon king of Bhutan, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, and his third wife, Queen ''Ashi'' Tshering Yangdon. He has a younger sister, Princess ''Ashi'' Dechen Yangzom, and brother, Prince ''Gyaltshab'' Jigme Dorji, as well as four half-sisters and three half-brothers. After completing his higher secondary studies at Yangchenphug High School, Khesar was educated in the United States ...
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