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Queen of Bhutan since 2011

This article is about the Queen of Bhutan. For the sister of the Dalai Lama, see Jetsun Pema (born 1940).

This name uses Bhutanese naming customs.

Bhutanese people have two given names, neither of which is a surname or family name unless they are descended from royal or noble lineages.

Jetsun Pema (Dzongkha: རྗེ་བཙུན་པདྨ་; Wylie: rje btsun padma, born on 4 June 1990) is Queen of Bhutan as the wife of King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck.

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She is currently the youngest queen consort in the world. She and the King have three children: Jigme Namgyel, the heir apparent to the Bhutanese throne, Jigme Ugyen, and Sonam Yangden.

Early life and education

Jetsun Pema was born at Jigme Dorji Wangchuck National Referral Hospital in Thimphu on 4 June 1990.^{[citation needed]} Her father, Dhondup Gyaltshen, is the grandson of two Trashigang Dzongpons, Thinley Topgay and Ugyen Tshering (governors of Trashigang) who were originally from K