Royal Bhutan couple

Not all royal weddings include long wedding-dress trains, Rolls Royce processions and pomp, as <a class="taxInlineTagLink" id="PLGEO00000149" title="Bhutan" href="/topic/intl/bhutan-PLGEO00000149.topic">Bhutan</a> showed with the Oct. 12 marriage of its popular fifth "Dragon King" to a 21-year-old student and daughter of an airline pilot. The 31-year-old King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, an Oxford graduate, married Jetsun Pema, whose looks have captivated the Bhutanese public perhaps as much as they have the king.<br> <br> <a href="http://framework.latimes.com/2011/10/13/a-royal-wedding-in-bhutan/#/0"><b>A royal wedding in Bhutan</b></a>
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Not all royal weddings include long wedding-dress trains, Rolls Royce processions and pomp, as Bhutan showed with the Oct. 12 marriage of its popular fifth "Dragon King" to a 21-year-old student and daughter of an airline pilot. The 31-year-old King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck, an Oxford graduate, married Jetsun Pema, whose looks have captivated the Bhutanese public perhaps as much as they have the king.

A royal wedding in Bhutan

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