Introducing Jetsun Pema: Bhutan's Commoner-turned-Queen

After the Prince William and Kate Middleton's royal wedding, the world witnessed another fairy tale union, this time from the Bhutanese kingdom.

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Jetsun Pema became a Queen in spite of her common heritage, joining many other commoners-turned-queens, post her royal wedding to the Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck. Pema lived her Cinderella moment while giving many other 'ordinary' girls a reason to believe in theirs too.

Jetsun Pema was born in the year 1990 to Dhondup Gyaltshen, a commercial pilot. Dhondup's grandfather was the governor of Trashigang district of Bhutan. Pema isn't exactly a commoner as her mother Sonam Chuki has a somewhat indirect relation to the royal family of Bhutan. Chuki's father is the half-brother of the queens of the Second King Jigme Wangchuck- Ashi Phuntsho Choden and Ashi Pema Dechan.

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"While she is young, she is warm and kind in heart and character. These qualities together with the wisdom that will come with age and experience will make her a great servant to the nation," is what the fifth King of Bhutan had said when he made the announcement of his decision to marry her.

Jetsun has four siblings, two brothers and two sisters and is the second eldest amongst them all. Jetsun as a little girl had her early education in Bhutan till the year 1998. Then she moved to Kalimpong, West Bengal during 1999-2000 for her convent education following which she went back to her kingdom and studied there till 2005.

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She came back to India to complete her higher secondary education and got admitted in Lawrence School, Sanawar in Himachal Pradesh. She then, went to Regent's College, London for her college education, majoring in International Relations.

Among her interests are basketball, fine arts and painting. In fact, she was the captain of the basketball team in her school days and is still passionate about the game, indulging in it it whenever she gets an opportunity to. She was quite active in co-curricular activities during her schooldays and participated in school bands and dance programmes. Apart from the national language of Bhutan, Dzongkha, the exotic beauty is fluent in Hindi and English.

Jetsun's interests and talents are quite exhaustive and reflect her penchant for embracing newer things and hence, likely to be the people's favorite. The young woman who won the heart of one of the most eligible bachelors of the world,can, after all, be no ordinary creature and it must have been something special that Khesar fell for her. Jetsun, through her natural grace and warm demeanour has already won over the Bhutanese subjects who have whole-heartedly accepted her as their Queen.

Now that she has been officially inducted into the royal family of Bhutan it remains for her to prove her mettle and live up to the expectations of the people. Hopefully she'll be as popular as other queens, around the globe, who like her were common subjects before marriage.

In conclusion, here is what noted writer, Shobha De has to say about the 'royal couple'. "Move over William and Kate.Here come Jigme Wangchuck nd Jetsun Pema,King and Queen of Bhutan.What a gorgeous royal couple.By far the hottest".