On October 13, 2011, King Wangchuck of Bhutan held his only wedding in the ancient castle deep in the mountains of Punakha.
Wangchuck made an emotional declaration: "Although I am a king, I can marry three wives and four concubines, but I will only marry one woman in my life, and Jizeng Pema will be the only queen of Bhutan." ”
Wangchuck's father, Singh, married four wives at the same time, but Wangchuck chose to give Pema a promise of a lifetime and a couple.
For a time, the love fairy tale about this affectionate king and lucky queen spread throughout Bhutan and even the world.
The seventeen-year-old prince falls in love with the seven-year-old Pema and waits for her to grow up
According to the news from the Bhutanese royal family, King Wangchuck fell in love with Pema at first sight when he was 17 years old, and made a vow in his heart not to marry her.
The two are said to have met at a private royal banquet, which was attended by seven-year-old Pema as a relative of the royal family.
Pema's father's grandfather is the younger brother of the queen of King Bhutan II, although the family of Pema's father's generation has lost its former glory, but it is also a relative of the royal family, so it is natural that he will often participate in royal activities.
Pema's mother, Sonam, was born into the Bentang family, one of the most powerful families in Bhutan.
Pema had two families behind her, and although she was only seven years old at the time, she had no stage fright.
When the seventeen-year-old crown prince Wangchuck saw this little girl, he was shocked, and he was attracted by this lovely, beautiful and extraordinary little girl for ten thousand years.
At that time, Wangchuck was harboring a beautiful vision of love, and Pema was just the fairy he had imagined in his heart.
Wangchuck half-jokingly asked Pema Jr., "I like you very much, will you marry me when you grow up?"
Pema, who was only seven years old at this time, probably didn't understand what it meant to like and marry him, she just felt that the big brother in front of her was very handsome, and she liked it very much.
Pema replied innocently: "Okay, then I can see you every day?"
A child and a teenager were so jokingly promised for life, and the adults didn't think the two children's jokes were taken seriously, but apparently neither Pema nor Wangchuck thought it was a joke.
After the feast, Pema and Wangchuck both returned to their normal lives.
As the crown prince, Wangchuck has the burden of revitalizing Bhutan, and naturally he can't always revolve around little Pema.
In order to learn Xi advanced statecraft of Western countries, Wangchuck went to Boston University in the United States and Oxford University in the United Kingdom for Xi.
In 2006, King IV of Bhutan decided to pass on the throne to Crown Prince Wangchuck, who became one of the youngest kings in the world at the age of 26.
Wangchuck, who became the king, still had a heart for Pema, but Pema was only 16 years old at this time and could not be his queen yet.
Wangchuck chose to continue to wait, waiting for his little girl to grow up and fulfill her childhood promise.
And Pema herself is very good, she has studied in India and England, and she is also fluent in Hindi and English, and she is a good Kochi woman.
A few years later, when Pema and Wangchuck met again, both of them remembered their childhood conversation and couldn't help but smile at each other.
Wangchuck asked Pema seriously again: "I like you very much, will you marry me?"
Pema had already rehearsed in her heart thousands of times that I was willing, but she was still a little shy at this time, so she only heard Pema stammer: "I do." ”
With the blessing of the Bhutanese royal family and the 760,000 people of Bhutan, the two entered the palace of marriage.
This is the fairy tale love story about the king and queen that circulated in the Bhutanese royal family, but soon after, the scandal of Wangchuck's infidelity broke out.
Is it a broken fairy tale or a fake fairy tale?
When Pema gave birth to her eldest son, many foreign media broke the news that Wangchuck was cheating and did not return home at night.
Although there is no empirical evidence, Pema no longer smiles when she looks at Wangchuck since then, and the couple rarely hold hands when they go out on official business.
Because Pema rarely laughs, many foreign media also gave her the title of iceberg beauty.
But looking at Pema's early photos, she is obviously a very smiling woman, and her eyes are full of love and admiration when she looks at Wangchuck.
But Wangchuk has obviously waited for her for fourteen years, why doesn't she cherish it anymore as soon as she gets married, is it really that she thinks it's just like this when she has it?
With the discovery of careful netizens, I learned that Wangchuck didn't know to cherish it when he got it, but that he never cherished Pema.
It turns out that the so-called fairy tale love of the royal family is all fake.
When Wangchuck was seventeen years old, he did tell Pema that he wanted to marry her, but in a blink of an eye he forgot about it.
He had two girlfriends when he was in the United States and the United Kingdom, one of whom was a girl from Hong Kong, China.
But it was because Wangchuck's parents did not agree that he had to give up his favorite ex-girlfriend.
After Wangchuck returned to China, he fell in love with Pema's cousin at the arrangement of the old king, and just when Wangchuck was ready to marry his sweetheart, an accident happened.
The national teacher of Bhutan said that Pema's eight characters are the most compatible with Wangchuck, and his cousin's eight characters are not good for Bhutan and the Bhutanese royal family.
Wangchuck had several younger brothers, and if he insisted on marrying Pema's cousin, he would most likely lose his right to the throne.
With the forced intervention of his parents, Wangchuck had to marry Pema, who was ten years his junior.
But Pema likes Wangchuck very much, and the glimpses of her childhood make Pema remember them for a lifetime, and she has always remembered the jokes of her childhood.
After all, Wangchuck was once known as the most handsome king in the world, and although this ranking may be exaggerated, Bhutan has only more than 700,000 people, and his appearance must surpass most of the men in Bhutan.
The loving Pema marries the forced Wangchuck, and it is conceivable that she will not be too happy after marriage.
But now that Pema has two sons and a daughter, she is firmly established in the Bhutanese royal family.
Pema's younger brother also married a Bhutanese princess, and Pema's sister also married Wangchuck's younger brother, and the relationship between Pema's family and the Bhutanese royal family has reached an inseparable point.
Even if Wangchuck had more lovers outside, it would not shake the status of Pema and her family.
Maybe after thinking about this, Pema is no longer sad, after all, love is not so important to her, power and status are what she should value.