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    Palden Thondup Namgyal OBE (Sikkimese: དཔལ་ལྡན་དོན་དྲུཔ་རྣམ་རྒྱལ; Wylie: dpal-ldan don-grub rnam-rgyal; 23 May 1923 – 29 January 1982) was the 12th and...
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    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 pretender...
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    rgyal mo) (Queen Consort) of the 12th Chogyal (King) of Sikkim, Palden Thondup Namgyal. Their wedding took place in March 1963. She was termed Her Highness...
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    Two. On his death he was succeeded as Chogyal by his second son Palden Thondup Namgyal. During his reign, he was known for land reform and free elections...
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    north, west, and south. The son from the first marriage of Palden Thondup Namgyal, Wangchuk Namgyal (Sikkimese: དབང་ཕྱུག་བསྟན་འཛིན་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་; born 1 April...
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  • (disambiguation) Phuntsog Namgyal, first king of Sikkim Palden Thondup Namgyal, last hereditary ruler of Sikkim, husband of Hope Cooke Ngawang Namgyal, founder of Bhutan...
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  • Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism Palden Tenpai Nyima (1782–1853), the Seventh Panchen Lama of Tibet Palden Thondup Namgyal (1923–1982), the 12th and last...
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  • Paljor Namgyal, died in 1941 in a plane crash during World War II. On his death he was succeeded as Chogyal by his second son Palden Thondup Namgyal. During...
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    the three venerated lamas at Yuksom. Phuntsog Namgyal was succeeded in 1670 by his son, Tensung Namgyal, who moved the capital from Yuksom to Rabdentse...
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  • families in 1971, followed by Pakistan in 1972. Finally, in 1975, King Palden Thondup Namgyal of Sikkim lost his throne when the country became a state of India...
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