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king jigme khesar namgyel wangchuk Introduction 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 the Druk Gyalpo ( Dzongkha : Dragon King), the monarch of the Kingdom of Bhutan . After his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne, 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