With his great-great-grandfather's five-colored scarf on his shoulders, 18-year-oldJigme Singye Wangchuckformallybecomes monarch in the tiny kingdom ofBhutan.
Bhutan's road to democracy was paved by the fourth king, JigmeSingyeWangchuck, who decided that the country's destiny should not be left to accidents of birth.
The former king, JigmeSingyeWangchuck, had announced the end of the absolute monarchy three years earlier before an audience of yak herders in a remote mountain village.