Empowered with the Dar Na-Nga, endowed with the Raven Crown, the Druk Gyalpo Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck became an embodiment of the people as an unprecedented crowd took part in the Coronation celebrations.
Children, women, and men came to offer the Thridar and His Majesty the King embraced the public in every sense. As the images of the Coronation flashed around the world, the unanimous view was that this was a Monarch, who truly touched, not just his own people, but everyone who saw or met him.
“I am not a monarchist but, today, I’ve seen a new meaning of monarchy,” said an Indian scholar. “I have seen monarchs, who assume remote and god-like images, but your King is human and I mean that as a profound compliment.”
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