Hooray for the youngest queen in the world!
Jetsun Pema of Bhutan can call herself the youngest queen in the world, but she is also turning a year older. Today the queen is blowing out 34 candles in the Far East, and is treating us to new snaps with the brand new Bhutan baby.
Jetsun Pema
Jetsun is the wife of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck of Bhutan. The royal couple are sometimes called ‘the Will and Kate of the Himalayas’, which is about how popular they are in their homeland and surrounding countries. For context: the celebration of their royal wedding was attended by 50,000 fellow countrymen.
This is due to their backgrounds (Jetsun was an ordinary student when she fell for the king), but also due to their open crush. “I certainly married the right woman,” the king once said in an interview about his wife, whom he is said to have met when she was only seven. “It’s not for nothing that I waited so long for her.”
“Although she is young,” the king said in 2011 about his then 21-year-old husband, “she has a warm and friendly character. These qualities, along with the belief that wisdom comes with age, make her a great servant of the nation.”
Children
The rest is history, and the couple is now taking the succession seriously: last September they became parents of their third child, daughter Sonam Yangden Wangchuck. They already had two sons: Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck (8, the youngest heir to the throne in the world) and Jigme Ugyen Wangchuck (4).
New portraits
In honor of the queen’s 34th birthday, the Bhutanese court shares a photo of the highness with her daughter. “We wish Her Majesty, our beloved Gyaltsuen, a happy 34th birthday 🎊,” reads the caption of the Instagram post.
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The girl, who is now nine months old, is sitting on her mother’s lap in a floral dress, which results in two sweet snapshots. The photos were taken at the Lingkana Palace in Thimphu, the capital of Bhutan. Hip Hip Hooray!
Source: Nouveau, Blauw Bloed | Image: NL Image, Instagram @queenjestunpema
