The Druk Gyalpo (Dragon King) The Druk Gyaltsuen (Dragon Queen)
The Druk Gyalsey (Dragon Prince)
Prince Jigme Ugyen
Princess Sonam Yangden
The Fourth Druk Gyalpo
Queen Mother Dorji Wangmo
Princess Sonam Dechen
Prince Jigyel Ugyen
Queen Mother Tshering Pem
Princess Chimi Yangzom
Princess Kesang Choden
Prince Ugyen Jigme
Queen Mother Tshering Yangdon
Princess Dechen Yangzom
Prince Jigme Dorji
Queen Mother Sangay Choden
Prince Khamsum Singye
Princess Euphelma Choden
Family of the Third Druk Gyalpo (deceased)
The Queen Grandmother
Princess Sonam Choden
Princess Dechen Wangmo
Princess Pema Lhaden
Princess Kesang Wangmo
Family of the Second Druk Gyalpo (deceased)
Princess Choki Wangmo
Prince Namgyel
Princess Deki Yangzom
Princess Pema Choden
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The Wangchuck dynasty (Tibetan: དབང་ཕྱུག་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱུད་, Wylie: Dbang-phyug Rgyal-brgyud) have held the hereditary position of Druk Gyalpo ("Dragon King") of Bhutan since 1907. Prior to reunification, the Wangchuck family had governed the district of Trongsa as descendants of Dungkar Choji. They eventually overpowered other regional lords and earned the favour of the British Empire. After consolidating power, the 12th Penlop of Trongsa Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck was elected Druk Gyalpo, thus founding the dynasty. The position of Druk Gyalpo – who heads the royal family of Bhutan – is more commonly known in English as the King of Bhutan, however "Druk Gyalpo" would be translated literally as "Dragon King" (or less commonly, "King of the Dragons", or "Thunder Dragon King")
The Wangchuck dynasty ruled government power in Bhutan and established relations with the British Empire and India under its first two monarchs. The third, fourth, and fifth (current) monarchs have put the kingdom on its path toward democratization, decentralization, and development.
The Wangchuckdynasty (Tibetan: དབང་ཕྱུག་རྒྱལ་བརྒྱུད་, Wylie: Dbang-phyug Rgyal-brgyud) have held the hereditary position of Druk Gyalpo ("Dragon King")...
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...
Singye Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་སེང་གེ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med seng ge dbang phyug; born 11 November 1955) is a member of the House of Wangchuck who...
Jigme Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: ’jigs med dbang phyug; 1905 – 30 March 1952) was the 2nd Druk Gyalpo or king of Bhutan from 26 August...
Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་, Wylie: jigs med rnam rgyal dbang phyug; born 5 February 2016) is the first child and...
Gongsar Ugyen Wangchuck (Dzongkha: ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུག, Wylie: o rgyan dbang phyug; 11 June 1862 – 26 August 1926) was the first Druk Gyalpo (King) of Bhutan...
Sonam Yangden Wangchuck (born 9 September 2023) is the third child of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan and his wife, Queen Jetsun Pema. She...
June 1959) is the third wife of the former Bhutanese king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck. She is the current Queen Mother (Gyalyum Kude, literally meaning "Queen...
(Dzongkha: Dragon Queen) of Bhutan, as the wife of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. She is currently the youngest queen consort in the world. She and the...
Druk Desis until the rise of the unified Wangchuckdynasty in 1907. Since the rise of the unified Wangchuck family in 1907, the Druk Gyalpo (འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་;...
Jigme Ugyen Wangchuck (Dzongkha: འཇིགས་མེད་ཨོ་རྒྱན་དབང་ཕྱུག; born 19 March 2020) is the second child of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan and...
A dynasty is a sequence of rulers from the same family, usually in the context of a monarchical system, but sometimes also appearing in republics. A dynasty...
"Queen Mother") of Bhutan, and first wife of former King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who is married to four sisters all of whom were entitled to be called...
Chimi Yangzom Wangchuck (born 10 January 1979) is a princess of Bhutan. She is the daughter of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and Queen...
Choden Wangchuck (born 23 January 1982), is a member of the royal family of Bhutan. She is a daughter of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and...
Khamsum Singye Wangchuck (born 6 October 1985) is a prince of Bhutan. He is the son of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and his wife, Queen...
Euphelma Choden Wangchuck (born 6 June 1993) is a princess of Bhutan. She is the daughter of the fourth King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuck and his wife...
monarchy of the Wangchuckdynasty in the independent Himalayan State of Bhutan was established in 1907. The first king of the Wangchuckdynasty, Gongsar Ugyen...
The wedding of Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, and Jetsun Pema took place on 13 October 2011 at the Punakha Dzong in Punakha, Bhutan....
1963) is one of the four wives and queens of Bhutanese king Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who ruled in Bhutan from 1972 until his abdication in 2006. She is the...
Mother Tshering Pem Wangchuck (born 22 December 1957) is one of the four wives and queens of Bhutanese king Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who ruled until his...
life, Ugyen Wangchuck was concerned about the continuity of the family dynasty, and in 1924 he sought British assurance that the Wangchuck family would...
Constitution of Bhutan Druk Dual system of government Queen of Bhutan Wangchuckdynasty History of Bhutan Politics of Bhutan Article 2: The Institution of...
Wangchuck Centennial was established on December 12, 2008 in honor of the Wangchuckdynasty, founded in 1907. It contains headwaters of four major river systems:...
Phuntsho Choden". Phayul.com. "WANGCHUCKDYNASTY. 100 Years of Enlightened Monarchy in Bhutan. Lham Dorji". "WANGCHUCKDYNASTY. 100 Years of Enlightened Monarchy...
location to control Bhutan and for centuries it was the seat of the Wangchuckdynasty of penlops (governors) who effectively ruled over much of eastern...
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