Father Yab Ugyen Dorji Predecessor Kesang Choden Name Sangay Choden | Mother Yum Thuiji Zam | |
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Issue Khamsum Singye WangchuckEuphelma Choden Wangchuck Children Khamsum Singye Wangchuck, Eeuphelma Choden Wangchuck Similar People | ||
Address by her majesty gyalyum sangay choden wangchuck world aids day 2011
Queen Mother Sangay Choden (born May 11, 1963) is one of the four wives and queens of Bhutanese king Jigme Singye Wangchuck, who ruled in Bhutan from 1972 until his abdication in 2006.
Contents
- Address by her majesty gyalyum sangay choden wangchuck world aids day 2011
- Biography
- Patronages
- National honours
- References
Biography
Her father, Dasho Yab Ugyen Dorji, is the Founder and Proprietor of Ugyen Academy (03/04/2002). Her mother is Yum Thuiji Zam.
She was educated at St. Joseph's Convent, Kalimpong, and St. Helen's School, Kurseong, India.
His brother is the former Prime Minister of Bhutan, Sangay Ngedup.
The other three wives and queens, all Sangay Choden's sisters, are:
She has the following children with the former king:
She was appointed the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Goodwill Ambassador in Bhutan in 1999.
I support the all around development of our younger generations, in whose hands lie the future of our country.
Sangay Choden is particularly interested in promoting the arts in Bhutan and advocating the country's rich cultural heritage. She is the patron of the Bhutan Textile Museum in Thimphu which she helped establish in 2001.
Her Majesty also established the Tara Lhadron Zhingkham Lhakhang, a temple dedicated to the 21 Taras located in the historically and spiritually significant temple grounds of Parigzampa Astrology School in Dechencholing, Thimphu.
On 1 July 2011 she visited the Alhambra with her daughter, Princess Euphelma Choden.