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Line 3: {{Infobox monarchy \|royal_title = ~~Druk Gyalpo~~King \|realm = Bhutan \|native_name = ''Dragon King of Bhutan'' \|image = Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck at the Enthronement of Naruhito.jpg \|incumbent = [[Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck]] \|~~other~~ incumbentsince = ~~Dragon King<br>(since 9~~12 December 2006) \|type = non-commonwealth \|his/her = His \|heir_apparent = [[Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck]] \|first_monarch = [[Ugyen Wangchuck]] \|date = 17{{start ~~December~~date and age\|df=y\|1907\|12\|17}} \|residence = [[Samteling Palace]], [[Thimphu]] }} Line 18 ⟶ 19: {{Politics of Bhutan}} The '''Druk Gyalpo''' ({{bo-textonly\|འབྲུག་རྒྱལ་པོ་}}; {{~~Literally}} '~~lit\|Dragon King'}}) is the [[head of state]] of the [[Bhutan\|Kingdom of Bhutan]].<ref>{{cite book \|url=http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Eng%20(A5).pdf \|title=Article 2: The Institution of Monarchy ~~\|work=The Constitution of the Kingdom of Bhutan~~ \|isbn=99936-754-0-7 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706162637/http://www.constitution.bt/TsaThrim%20Eng%20%28A5%29.pdf \|archive-date=6 July 2011}}</ref> In the [[Dzongkha\|Dzongkha language]], Bhutan is known as ''Drukyul'' which translates as "The Land of the Thunder Dragon". Thus, while kings of Bhutan are known as ''Druk Gyalpo'' ("Dragon King"), the Bhutanese people call themselves the ''Drukpa'', meaning "people of Druk (Bhutan)". The current sovereign of Bhutan is [[Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck]], the fifth ''Druk Gyalpo''.<ref name=king>{{cite web \|url=http://www.bhutan2008.bt/en/node/104 \|title=A Legacy of Two Kings \|publisher=Bhutan 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101215041151/http://www.bhutan2008.bt/en/node/104 \|archive-date=15 December 2010 }}</ref> He wears the [[Raven Crown]], which is the official crown worn by the kings of Bhutan. He is correctly styled "''Mi'wang 'Ngada Rinpoche''" ("His Majesty") and addressed "''Ngada Rimboche''" ("Your Majesty").<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/online/dictionaries/dz-en-dict/Contents/16-01-MI.html \|title=༈ རྫོང་ཁ་ཨིང་ལིཤ་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག་མཛོད། ༼མི༽ \|trans-title=Dzongkha-English Dictionary: "MI" \|work=Dzongkha-English Online Dictionary \|publisher=Dzongkha Development Commission, Government of Bhutan \|access-date=2011-10-30 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729214437/http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/online/dictionaries/dz-en-dict/Contents/16-01-MI.html \|archive-date=29 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/online/dictionaries/dz-en-dict/Contents/04-06-MNGA.html \|title=༈ རྫོང་ཁ་ཨིང་ལིཤ་ཤན་སྦྱར་ཚིག་མཛོད། ༼མང-༽ \|trans-title=Dzongkha-English Dictionary: "MNGA" \|work=Dzongkha-English Online Dictionary \|publisher=Dzongkha Development Commission, Government of Bhutan \|access-date=2011-10-30 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120802033232/http://www.dzongkha.gov.bt/online/dictionaries/dz-en-dict/Contents/04-06-MNGA.html \|archive-date=2 August 2012}}</ref> Line 50 ⟶ 51: ==List of Druk Gyalpos== {{Main\|List of rulers of Bhutan#Kings of Bhutan (1907–present)}} The Hereditary Dragon Kings of Bhutan:<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.bhutan2008.bt/en/node/141 \|title=Hundred years of Monarchy: A walk down the memory lane \|publisher=Bhutan 2008 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100301012713/http://www.bhutan2008.bt/en/node/141 \|archive-date=1 March 2010}}</ref> Line 60 ⟶ 61: \| reignstart1 = 17 December 1907 \| reignend1 = 26 August 1926 \| notes1 = Son of [[Jigme Namgyal (Bhutan)\|Jigme Namgyel]] \| family1 = [[House of Wangchuck\|Wangchuck]] \| image1 = Ugyen Wangchuck, 1905 (cropped).jpg Line 109 ⟶ 110: * [[Constitution of Bhutan]] * [[Druk]] * [[Druk Gyaltsuen]] * [[Dual system of government]] * [[~~House~~Queen of ~~Wangchuck~~Bhutan]]▼ * [[Wangchuck dynasty]] * [[History of Bhutan]] ▲* [[House of Wangchuck]] * [[Politics of Bhutan]]