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His Majesty The King Jigme Singye Wangchuck is Seventeen

ཟླ་༡༡ 12, 1972 0 mins read

His Majesty Jigme Singye Wangchuck, King of Bhutan, reached the age of 17 on November 11. (His Majesty was born on November 11, 1955 according to the western calendar and in the wood-sheep year according to the Bhutanese calendar.)

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