Bhutan king crowned
The new king of Bhutan has been crowned in a colourful coronation ceremony in the secluded Himalayan Kingdom.
The 28-year-old Oxford educated bachelor is the Buddhist nation’s fifth hereditary king but is the young democracy’s first constitutional monarch.
The long ceremony took place inside the massive white-walled fortress and seat of government in the capital Thimphu.
Five decades ago, Bhutan was a feudal, mediaeval place with no roads, proper schools or hospitals and scarcely any contact with the outside world.
Today education and healthcare are free and life expectancy has risen to 66 years.
Helen Long reports.
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- _____ 28 Bhutan’s _____ king becomes the _____ monarch.
- He _____ much of his _____ years in the _____, Britain _____ India. (many)
- _____ received the _____ from _____ father.
- Bhutan is _____ precariously _____ India and _____.
- He (the father) _____ two years _____, but the _____ of the Buddhist nation’s fifth _____ king was _____ on ______.
- Astrologers _____ 2007 an _____ year.
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- _____ from the _____ of government _____ his father _____, the _____ king, Wangchuck, _____ an important _____ of national unity and _____.
- _____ days _____ national _____ will _____ which also _____ one hundred years _____ Bhutan’s _____.
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