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His Majesty Kesang Choden of Bhutan turns 90 this Thursday . Few readers will have heard of it, because their country remains one of Asia's great unknown and belongs to one of the most enigmatic dynasties for Westerners. But among the peculiarities that make the grandmother of the current monarch of this nation, the last kingdom of the Himalayas, a fascinating woman is that of being the only one who holds the title of queen grandmother.
Bhutan is a small country of approximately 50,000 km², nestled between the two Asian giants, China and India, in the highest mountain range in the world. It has little more than 900,000 inhabitants and its capital is Timbú. In this mysterious nation, which has only recently been opened to tourism and in a very limited way, the British writer James Hilton wanted to see his famous Tibetan paradise that he baptized as Shangri La.
The truth is that Bhutan jumped into the international media a little over a decade ago due to the happy occurrence of its rulers to measure the Gross Inner Happiness of its citizens, an indicator that serves to assess the quality of life in more holistic terms than the Product. Gross Interior. It is not that economic importance is neglected, as is logical, but it is understandable that a historically so spiritual people give due importance to other values of a more psychological nature to gauge the state of real welfare.
It took a long time for Bhutan to get almost everything. For example, television did not start broadcasting in the kingdom until 1999. Although democracy prevailed in the country when in other neighboring countries such as China it is still more than a pipe dream. And the verb impose is well used. Because that of Bhutan is one of the very few cases in the world where its leader, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who ruled with all the powers of an absolute monarch, in 2006 decided that the time had come for the Bhutanese to organize politically. like a democracy and pushed the country to enact a Constitution, create political parties and start holding elections.
Jigme Singye Wangchuck, the eldest son of today's Queen Grandmother, whom we previously alluded to, demonstrated that his democratic revolution was serious. So much so that, while still young, he abdicated and gave the crown to his son Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, who, in December 2006, at the age of 26, became the fifth dragon king, the nickname received by the monarchs of the Wangchuck dynasty . This sovereign has trained in International Relations at the prestigious American University of Wheaton College and the British University of Oxford.
Let's say about Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, who for years has been considered the sexiest monarch on Earth, according to surveys that some publications, as a hobby, carry out to test who are the most graceful international leaders.
And, unlike his father, who has four wives - something well accepted in the Bhutanese culture - this king, a pious Buddhist, is an inveterate monogamist. The marriage he forms with the beautiful queen Jetsun Pema has always been compared to that of William of England and Kate Middleton. The Dukes of Cambridge , precisely, made an official visit to Bhutan in April 2016 that delighted the photographers.
The story of the Bhutanese kings is from a novel by Corín Tellado. Wangchuck met his wife today when he was 17 and she was 10 years younger! Jetsun Pema belongs to an important aristocratic lineage distantly related to the royal family. They met at a picnic. He saw her, knelt politely before her and released her: "When you come of age, if you are still single and you want it, I want you to become my wife." Said and done. They married in a traditional Buddhist ceremony in October 2011.
They already have two children: Crown Prince Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck, who was born in February 2016, and a second child who arrived on March 19, when the entire world, including Bhutan, was already mired in concern over the advancement of the coronavirus pandemic.
It is not the thing as for big celebrations for the 90th birthday of the grandmother queen, who was recently seen in an image with her grandson and her newborn great-grandson. In any case, it is a source of happiness for the Bhutanese that the old sovereign reaches this age, which for Buddhists represents reaching an extraordinary status of wisdom.
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