[1] “As for my son — he just became 11 on the 21st of February — I am trying to give him a normal life and a normal education. I’m going to make him study in schools in Bhutan, and without any special privileges. He should not be separated from the problems or the way of life of the Bhutanese people.”
[2] THE KING AND I, AND I, AND I, AND I
[3] McCloskey, Deirdre N. (28 June 2012). “Happyism: The Creepy New Economics of Pleasure”. The New Republic: 16–23.
[5] “The flaw in monarchy,” the King of Bhutan said, “is that you reach that very high and important position not due to merit, but due to birth. Too much depends on one individual. I don’t think Bhutan’s political future, and the well-being of our people, our security and our sovereignty, can be determined by one individual. I always stress in all my speeches and talks to schoolchildren that the future of Bhutan does not lie in the hands of the King. The future of Bhutan lies in the hands of the Bhutanese people.”