By the end of this year, King Jigme Singye Wangchuck, whose family has ruled over Bhutan for almost a hundred years, will officially hand over power to the people. Nobody wants to see him go, but the king himself has decided that he must take a less active role in government. By his own account, he does not want to see the throne stand in the way of the remarkable modernization under way in Bhutan.

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