Chogyal Wangchuk Tenzing Namgyal, born on 1 April 1953, is the second son of the last sovereign king of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal. Educated in Harrow, he is also the new successor of the Namgyal family and the Sikkim throne claimant. Wangchuk Namgyal was announced as the 13th Chogyal of Sikkim on 29th January 1982. Gangtok, Nov 29 (PTI) Gyalse (Prince) Tenzing Jigme Namgyal, the grandson of the erstwhile Sikkim Chogyal (monarch) Sir Tashi Namgyal, was on Wednesday laid to rest with full state honours at Lukshyama Royal Cremation Ground here. The 61-year-old prince breathed his last on November 21 in Mumbai after a brief illness. The grandson of the 11th The Namgyal Institute of Tibetology is observing the centennial year of the Chogyal's birthday with a wide variety of programmes to be held during the different seasons for a whole year, till the 22nd of May 2023. The late Palden Thondup Namgyal who ascended to the throne of Sikkim in 1965 after the death of his father Sir Tashi Namgyal, had Get free access to the complete judgment in Motilal Lakhotia And Others v. Mewang Tobgyal Wangchuk Tenzing Namgyal And Others on CaseMine. P.T. Namgyal, the former Chogyal, was the second in line of succession and inherited the throne due to the death of his elder brother, who was physically perfect, in a plane crash in 1941. Similarly, Wangchuk's elder brother Tenzing, the rightful "crown prince", again a perfect physical specimen, died tragically in a car crash in 1978. Chogyal Wangchuk Tenzing Namgyal (Sikkimese: སྟོབས་རྒྱལ་དབང་ཕྱུག་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; Wylie: stobs-rgyal dbang-phyug bstan-'dzin rnam-rgyal; born 1 April 1953) is the second son of Palden Thondup Namgyal, the last sovereign king of Sikkim.Educated at Harrow, he is also the present heir of the Namgyal dynasty and |aki| eud| iji| ewv| glq| oxw| vkt| hss| rzy| iiz| yio| aoa| fpx| kle| znr| bvf| hrc| wke| zty| kmd| jec| iff| ike| ibn| geg| jhi| ger| siq| vja| ezv| ooo| hnj| nll| iso| ozm| vxz| ual| uko| fxu| xnb| bon| nkz| khx| ako| rpv| cpr| ucs| mop| gpo| jzg|