Princess ''Ashi'' Euphelma Choden Wangchuck (born 6 June 1993) is a princess of

Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainou ...

. She is the daughter of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and his wife, Queen Mother ''Ashi'' Sangay Choden Wangchuck. She is half-sister of the fifth King,

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 ...

Biography

Princess Euphelma Choden Wangchuck is the youngest daughter of the fourth King of Bhutan, currently King-Father of Bhutan. She has been educated in the exclusive Swiss boarding school,

Institut Le Rosey Institut Le Rosey (), commonly referred to as Le Rosey or simply Rosey, is a private boarding school in Rolle, Switzerland. Founded in 1880 by Paul-Émile Carnal on the site of the 14th-century Château du Rosey in the town of Rolle in the can ...

, in

Rolle Rolle () is a municipality in the Canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It was the seat of the district of Rolle until 2006, when it became part of the district of Nyon. It is located on the northwestern shore of Lake Geneva (''Lac Léman'') between Ny ...

(promotion of 2011). On 1 July 2011 she visited the Alhambra with her mother, Queen ''Ashi'' Sangay Choden Wangchuck. Later she studied

Sociology Sociology is a social science that focuses on society, human social behavior, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life. It uses various methods of empirical investigation an ...

at the

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

in the

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, graduating in 2016. She attended the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Asian Para Games on 6 October in the Indonesian capital city Jakarta (the first time

sent a delegation to the event).

Marriage and children

On 29 October 2020, she married ''

Dasho Dasho (Dzongkha: དྲག་ཤོས; Wylie: ''Drag-shos'') (lit. Excellent One) is a Bhutanese honorific that is bestowed upon individuals, along with a red scarf kabney, by the Druk Gyalpo. In common practice, however, many senior government o ...

'' Thinley Norbu at

Dechencholing Palace Dechencholing Palace ( dz, བདེ་ཆེན་ཆོས་གླིང་, ') is located in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan, to the north of the Tashichho Dzong and north of the city centre. It was built in 1953 by the third king of Bhutan ' ...

. He was born to ''Yab'' Dhondup Gyaltshen and ''Yum'' Sonam Choki in 1992, and is the younger brother of Her Majesty The Gyaltsuen, ''Ashi'' Jetsun Pema Wangchuck. After graduating from St. Stephen's College, Delhi in

Delhi University Delhi University (DU), formally the University of Delhi, is a collegiate central university located in New Delhi, India. It was founded in 1922 by an Act of the Central Legislative Assembly and is recognized as an Institute of Eminence (IoE) ...

, ''Dasho'' Thinley Norbu trained as a pilot (as his father) has been flying for the National Airline

Druk Air Drukair Corporation Limited ( dz, འབྲུག་མཁའ་འགྲུལ་ལས་འཛིན།), operating as Drukair — Royal Bhutan Airlines, is the flag carrier of the Kingdom of Bhutan, headquartered in the western dzongk ...

since 2019. Both Euphelma Choden and Thinley Norbu are active members of ''DeSuups'', an organization made up of volunteers who go to the areas affected by some cataclysm or in charity events and who wear a familiar orange uniform to be easily recognizable. They are known as "Guardians of Peace".

Patronages

* President of the Bhutan Paralympic Committee (BPC) since 2018. * Chairman of the Gyalyum (Queen Mother) Charitable Trust. * Patron of Red Dot Bhutan since 2021.

Titles and styles

* 6 June 1993 – present: '' Her Royal Highness'' Princess ''

Ashi Ashi (Avestan: 𐬀𐬴𐬌 ''aṣ̌i/arti'') is the Avestan language word for the Zoroastrian concept of "that which is attained." As the hypostasis of "reward," "recompense," or "capricious luck," ''Ashi'' is also a divinity in the Zoroastria ...

'' Euphelma Choden Wangchuck.

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Wangchuck, Euphelma Choden Bhutanese monarchy Living people 1993 births Wangchuck dynasty Georgetown College (Georgetown University) alumni

Biography

Marriage and children

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Titles and styles

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