Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck Quotes

Bhutan, Royalty
February 21, 1980

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck (འཇིགས་མེད་གེ་སར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med ge sar rnam rgyal dbang phyug) is the current reigning Druk Gyalpo or "Dragon King" of the Kingdom of Bhutan. After his father Jigme Singye Wangchuck abdicated the throne in his favour, he became King on 9 December 2006. A public coronation ceremony was held on 6 November 2008, an auspicious year that marked 100 years of monarchy in Bhutan.

It doesn't matter when you get married as long as it is the right person.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
- Person
- Right
- Married
There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
- Earth
- Peace
- Accept

I will follow in my father's footsteps. My father set the bar very high. He was a wonderful leader.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
- Father
- Follow
- Footsteps
People might think that my queen should be highly educated, beautiful and the best of the best. Jetsun Pema is a kind-hearted girl who is very supportive and whom I can trust. I cannot say how she might appear to the people, but to me, she is the one.

Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck
- Trust
- Queen
- Supportive