Do you believe that someone will wait 13 years for a love?
What if this person is still the future heir to the throne?
This fairytale-like plot happened to the king and queen of Bhutan.
Dating her life with the prince at the age of 7 and being called "Asia's most beautiful queen" by the media, Bhutan's Queen Kizen Pema's life sounds like a legend.
However, just when everyone was immersed in this beautiful fairy tale, the story suddenly reversed...
Jize Pema was born in June 1990 in a prestigious family in Yanbu, Bhutan.
Her mother came from the famous local Buntang family, the father of King Bhutan II's half-brother and a remarkable pilot.
Pema can be said to have been born with a "golden spoon", and her family power should not be underestimated.
In this way, the post-90s girl Pema thrived under the careful education and care of her parents.
One day in 1997, the Bhutanese royal family held a grand dinner and invited royal family members to attend. In fact, this party also has the purpose of choosing a princess for 17-year-old prince Wangchuk.
Wangchuk was the son of the former king Jigme Singh Wangchuk and the third princess and was the heir to the throne.
The Pema family is a foreign relative of the Bhutanese royal family, and 7-year-old Pema and her parents come to the dinner, so the love story of the prince and Pema begins here.
People were pushing glasses and whispering, and Wangchuk was a little tired of the atmosphere. During the banquet, he walked out of the banquet hall to breathe, and happened to see a sweet-looking little girl playing with a garland by herself.
This girl's eyebrows are clear, the corners of her mouth are raised, she is smiling sweetly, and there is aura between her eyebrows, and the prince suddenly has an indescribable feeling.
At this time, Pema ran towards Wangchuk and, with a smile, gave the rosette in her hand to the prince.
Wangchuk bent down and smiled at her and said, "Do you know what roses mean?" When you grow up, if you are not married, will you be my wife? ”
Pema nodded understandingly, this was just a joke, who knew that the seeds of love were planted in the heart of the 17-year-old Prince Wangchuk.
So, Pema and this handsome big brother left each other's contact information.
Because Wangchuk also had the experience of studying in the UK, Pema has always regarded Wangchuk as a senior when she grew up, and often humbly asked various questions during her studies, and the two have always kept in touch.
When Pema was in difficulty, she always asked Wangchuk for help, and the enthusiastic prince responded to her requests, and even traveled thousands of miles to see her, and saw the down-to-earth and stable senior come to her side, and Pema, who was in a foreign country, had a trace of warmth in her heart.
When the king urged Wangchuk to find a girl to marry quickly, he told his father to wait, the time was not ripe, and he had already identified a girl in his heart.
After two years as king in Wangchuk, Pema finally returned home and grew into a gentle and charming beauty.
Wangchuk plucked up the courage to propose to Pema.
Pema was surprised, she did not know that Wangchuk, who had tried her best to help her, had become a king.
I didn't expect that he had always remembered the agreement he had when he was a child, and the joke he said casually was remembered by the other party for so many years.
Pema was moved, and the two hugged each other tightly, and everything was silent.
On October 13, 2011, 31-year-old Wangchuck and Pema, who was 10 years younger than him, were married in the presence of the royal family.
Due to Bhutanese traditions, they did not invite members of the foreign royal family and the news media to participate, but only invited the families of both sides and some local villagers to hold a romantic and simple wedding in the castle.
At the wedding, Wangchuk sincerely stated that he loved Pema alone in his life and wanted to abolish polygamy.
After marriage, Pema often made a lot of feasible suggestions for the country's charity and medical system, provided free assistance to families in need, protected vulnerable groups with her practical actions, and did a lot of good things for the people of Bhutan.
The husband and wife, as the face of the royal family, were also called "William and Kate of the Himalayas" by the media.
In the fifth year after marriage, the two finally had the crystallization of love and gave birth to a healthy boy. Four years later, he gave birth to a son and became a happy family of four.
This romantic love story has even led to Bhutan's economic development, and many people regard Bhutan as a love mecca, and the wedding venue of Tony Leung and Carina Lau was chosen here.
But many people don't know that there is actually a "little-known" secret behind this fairy tale.
Wangchuk, who has always shown himself with an affectionate image, has also had various scandals.
One of the heroines is a woman of Chinese descent, and the other is Pema's cousin.
After the king got married, the Chinese woman exposed intimate photos of her relationship with Wangchuk on the Internet, and the story of the king waiting for the queen for 13 years was shattered.
It is understood that during his studies abroad, Wangchuk, who was in his youth, and the Chinese woman were inseparable from each other, but because the woman's family was ordinary, she was strongly opposed by the royal family.
The old king even threatened him: "If you insist on being with a commoner foreign woman, you will lose your status as a crown prince." ”
Wangchuk weighed the pros and cons again and again and finally decided to give up love.
Immediately afterwards, people broke the news that Wangchuk's first love was not Pema, but Pema's cousin, and Pema was just a spare tire.
It is rumored that the royal family of Bhutan and the Pema family married to consolidate the country's power, and the queen's preferred person at that time was Pema's cousin.
Prince Wangchuk and Pema's cousin are about the same age, and the two have known and fallen in love since childhood.
When the royal family was about to enter the marriage hall as expected, when a respected national teacher chose an auspicious date for their marriage, he found that the two people did not match, and if they insisted on marriage, I am afraid that it would affect the rise and fall of the entire Kingdom of Bhutan.
Since then, the pair of bitter mandarin ducks have been disassembled.
Political marriage is a major event related to the development of the country, since it is not possible to marry my cousin, I simply replaced it with my cousin Pema.
Pema is no worse than her cousin in figure or appearance, and she has also been praised by the national teacher.
In Bhutan, women have a very humble status and do not have the right to choose their own marriage, and even if they have all the reasons, they have to obey their parents' arrangements.
At that time, Pema, who was 10 years younger than Wangchuk, fell victim to political trade-offs.
A few years ago, there were rumors that the king's marriage had a crisis and that there was a confidant outside.
Whether it is true or not, during the time when the rumors were flying, when Wangchuk and Pema attended important events, the queen did look indifferent and did not smile at all.
Think about it carefully, ordinary people's marriages will consider the right door, not to mention royal marriages, but also consider the pros and cons.
The royal family needed this powerful family power to stabilize the royal power, and Wangchuk had nothing to do as the heir.
And those former gossip girlfriends did not happen after marriage, and the biggest stain was probably the royal family's exclusive character for him in order to promote the development of Bhutan's tourism industry.
Today, the king has never broken his promise, never thought of remarrying, and Pema has never made radical moves, always working hard to manage family and state affairs.
In any case, Pema and Wangchuk have been together for more than ten years, it doesn't matter if their story is true or not, as long as you believe in love, then love will last forever. Text/coffee