The new king of Bhutan has been crowned in a colourful coronation ceremony in the secluded Himalayan Kingdom.
The 28-year-old Oxford educated bachelor is the Buddhist nation's fifth hereditary king but is the young democracy's first constitutional monarch.
The long ceremony took place inside the massive white-walled fortress and seat of government in the capital Thimphu.
Five decades ago, Bhutan was a feudal, mediaeval place with no roads, proper schools or hospitals and scarcely any contact with the outside world.
Today education and healthcare are free and life expectancy has risen to 66 years.
Helen Long reports.
