A list of current monarch's in the world

BY SAJID BIN RASHID

QUEEN ELIZABETH II (UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND)

Full Name: Elizabeth Alexandra Mary

Father’s Name: King George VI Mother’s Name: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon

House: Windsor

Born: 21 April 1926

Born Place: London, United Kingdom

Reign: 6 February 1952 – present

Coronation: 2 June 1953

Predecessor: King George VI

Heir apparent: Charles, Prince of Wales

Spouse: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (m. 1947)

Issue: 4 Children

Religion: Church of England

KING HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA

( BAHRAIN) Full Name: Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Father’s Name: Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa

Mother’s Name: Hessa bint Salman Al Khalifa

House: House of Khalifa

Born: 28 January 1950

Born Place: Riffa, Bahrain

Reign: 6 March 1999– present

Coronation: 14 February 2002

Predecessor: Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa

Heir apparent: Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

Spouse: 5 wives

Issue: 12 Children's

Religion: Sunni Islam

SULTAN HASSANAL BOLKIAH (BRUNEI)

Full Name: Hassanal Bolkiah

Father’s Name: Omar Ali Saifuddien III Mother’s Name: Pengiran Anak Damit Born: 15 July 1946

Born Place: Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei

Reign: 4 October 1967 – present

Predecessor: Omar Ali Saifuddien III

Heir apparent: Al- Muhtadee Billah

Spouse: 3 wives

Issue: 12 Children's


HENRI, GRAND DUKE OF LUXEMBOURG

(LUXEMBOURG) Full Name: Henri Albert Gabriel Félix Marie Guillaume

Father’s Name: Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg

Mother’s Name: Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium

House: Nassau - Weilburg

Born: 16 April 1955

Born Place: Betzdorf, Luxembourg


Predecessor: Jean

Heir apparent: Guillaume

Spouse: María Teresa Mestre y Batista

Issue: 5 Children's

KING ABDULLAH II

(JORDAN) Full Name: Abdullah bin Hussein bin Talal bin Abdullah bin

Hussein bin Ali

Father’s Name: Hussein of Jordan

Mother’s Name: Muna al-Hussein


Born Place: Amman, Jordan


Predecessor: Hussein

Heir apparent: Crown Prince Hussein

Spouse: Rania Al-Yassin

Issue: 4 Children's


EMPEROR AKIHITO

(JAPAN) Full Name: Akihito

Father’s Name: Emperor Shōwa Mother’s Name: Empress Kōjun

House: Imperial House of Japan

Born: 23 December 1933

Born Place: Tokyo Imperial Palace, Japan

Reign: 7 January 1989 – present

Predecessor: Emperor Shōwa Heir apparent: Crown Prince Naruhito

Spouse: Michiko Shōda (m. 1959)

Issue: 3 Children's

Religion: Shinto

KING PHILIPPE

(BELGIUM)

Full Name: Philippe

Father’s Name: Albert II of Belgium Mother’s Name: Paola Ruffo di Calabria

House: Saxe-Coburg and Gotha

Born: 15 April 1960

Born Place: Brussels, Belgium

Reign: 21 July 2013 – present

Predecessor: Albert II

Heir apparent: Elisabeth

Spouse: Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz (m. 1999)

Issue: 4 Children's

Religion: Roman Catholicism

KING JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK

(BHUTAN) Full Name: King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wangchuck

Father’s Name: Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Mother’s Name: Tshering Yangdon

House: Wangchuck

Born: 21 February 1980

Born Place: Kathmandu, Nepal

Reign: 9 December 2006 – present

Predecessor: Jigme Singye Wangchuck

Heir apparent: Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck

Spouse: Jigme Namgyel Wangchuck

Issue: 1 Children

Religion: Vajrayana Buddhism

KING NORODOM SIHAMONI

(COMBODIA)

Full Name: King Norodom Sihamoni

Father’s Name: Norodom Sihanouk

Mother’s Name: Norodom Monineath

House: House of Norodom

Born: 14 May 1953

Born Place: Phnom Penh, Cambodia


Predecessor: Norodom Sihanouk

Religion: Norodom Sihanouk

QUEEN MARGRETHE II

(DENMARK)

Full Name: Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid

Father’s Name: Frederik IX of Denmark

Mother’s Name: Ingrid of Sweden House: Glücksburg

Born: 16 April 1940

Born Place:, Copenhagen,Denmark


Predecessor: Frederick IX

Heir apparent: Crown Prince Frederik

Spouse: Henri de Laborde de Monpezat

Issue: 2 Children's

Religion: Lutheranism

KING LETSIE III

(LESOTHO)

Full Name: David Mohato Bereng Seeiso

Father’s Name: Moshoeshoe II Mother’s Name: Mamohato House: House of Moshesh

Born: 17 July 1963

Born Place: Scott Hospital , Lesotho


Predecessor: Moshoeshoe II

Heir apparent: Lerotholi Seeiso

Spouse: Anna Mots'oeneng

Issue: 3 Children's


KING MOHAMMED VI

(MOROCCO)

Full Name: Sidi Mohammed

Father’s Name: Hassan II Mother’s Name: Lalla Latifa Hammou House: House of Alaouite

Born: 21 August 1963

Born Place: Rabat, Morocco

Reign:23 July 1999 – present

Predecessor: Hassan II

Heir apparent: Moulay Hassan

Spouse: Salma Bennani (m. 2001)

Issue: 2 Children's


KING HARALD V

(NORWAY) Full Name: Harald V

Father’s Name: Olav V of Norway

Mother’s Name: Princess Märtha of Sweden

House: Glücksburg


Born Place: Skaugum, Norway


Predecessor: Olav V

Heir apparent: Crown Prince Haakon

Spouse: Sonja Haraldsen (m. 1968)

Issue: 2 Children's

Religion: Lutheranism

BADSHAH SALMAN BIN ABDUL AZIZ AL SAUD

(SAUDI ARABIA) Full Name: Salman Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud

Father’s Name: Abdulaziz of Saudi Arabia

Mother’s Name: Hassa bint Ahmad Al Sudairi

House: House of Saud


Born Place: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia


Predecessor: Abdullah

Heir apparent: Muhammad bin Nayef

Issue: 9 Children's


KING FELIPE

(SPAIN) Full Name: Felipe Juan Pablo Alfonso de Todos los Santos

de Borbón y Grecia

Father’s Name: Juan Carlos I of Spain

Mother’s Name: Sofía of Greece and Denmark

House: Bourbon


Born Place: Madrid, Spain

Reign: 19 June 2014 – present

Predecessor: Juan Carlos I

Heir apparent: Leonor

Spouse: Letizia Ortiz Rocasolano (m. 2004)

Issue: 2 Children's

Religion: Roman Catholic

KING MSWATI III

(SWAZILAND) Full Name: Makhosetive Dlamini

Father’s Name: Sobhuza II Mother’s Name: Ntfombi Tfwala House: House of Dlamini

Born: 19 April 1968

Born Place: Manzini, Swaziland

Reign: 25 April 1986 – present

Predecessor: Sobhuza II

Spouse: 15 wives concurrently

Issue: 30 children’s

KING CARL XVI GUSTAF

(SWEDEN) Full Name: Carl Gustaf Folke Hubertus

Father’s Name: Prince Gustaf Adolf Mother’s Name: Princess Sibylla House: Bernadotte

Born: 30 April 1946

Born Place: Solna, Sweden

Reign: 15 September 1973 – present

Predecessor: Prince Gustaf Adolf

Heir apparent: Crown Princess Victoria

Spouse: Silvia Sommerlath (m. 1976)

Issue: 3 Children's

Religion: Church of Sweden

KING RAMA IX

(THAILAND) Full Name: Bhumibol Adulyadej

Father’s Name: Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkla

Mother’s Name: Srinagarindra, The Princess Mother House: House of Mahidol, Chakri Dynasty


Born Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.


Predecessor: Ananda Mahidol

Heir apparent: Maha Vajiralongkorn

Spouse: Sirikit Kitiyakara (1950–present)

Issue: 4 Children's

Religion: Theravada Buddhism

KING WILLEM-ALEXANDER

(NETHERLAND) Full Name: Willem-Alexander Claus George Ferdinand

Father’s Name: Prince Claus of the Netherlands Mother’s Name: Beatrix of the Netherlands House: Orange-Nassau

Born: 27 April 1967

Born Place: Utrecht, Netherlands.


Predecessor: Beatrix

Heir apparent: Catharina-Amalia

Spouse: Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti (m. 2002)

Issue: 3 Children's

Religion: Dutch Reformed

PRINCE ALBERT II

(MONACO) Full Name: Albert II

Father’s Name: Rainier III, Prince of Monaco

Mother’s Name: Grace Kelly House: Grimaldi

Born: 14 March 1958

Born Place: Prince's Palace, Monaco


Predecessor: Rainier III

Heir apparent: Jacques

Spouse: Charlene Wittstock (m. 2011)

Issue: 2 Children's


KING TUPOU VI

(TONGA) Full Name: ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho

Father’s Name: Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV

Mother’s Name: Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe

House: Tupou

Born: 12 July 1959

Born Place: Nukuʻalofa, Tonga

Reign: 18 March 2012 – present

Predecessor: George Tupou V

Heir apparent: Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala

Spouse: Nanasipauʻu Vaea

Issue: 3 Children's

Religion: Methodism

KING ABDUL HALIM

(MALAYSIA) Full Name: Tunku Abdul Halim ibni Tunku Badlishah

Father’s Name: Badlishah Mother’s Name: Almarhumah Tunku Sofia binti Almarhum

Tunku Mahmud

Born: 28 November 1927

Born Place: Anak Bukit, Malaya

Reign: 13 December 2011 – present

Predecessor: Mizan Zainal Abidin of Terengganu

Spouse: 2 wives

Issue: 1 Children

Religion: Methodism

PRINCE HANS-ADAM II

(LIECHTENSTEIN) Full Name: Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco

d'Aviano Pius

Father’s Name: Franz Joseph II Mother’s Name: Countess Georgina von Wilczek House: Liechtenstein


Born Place: Zürich, Switzerland

Reign: 13 November 1989 – present

Predecessor: Franz Joseph II

Heir apparent: Alois

Spouse: 1 wife

Issue: 4 Children's

Religion: Roman Catholic

EMIR TAMIM BIN HAMAD AL THANI

(QATAR) Full Name: Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani

Father’s Name: Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani Mother’s Name: Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned

House: House of Thani

Born: 3 June 1980

Born Place: Doha, Qatar


Predecessor: Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

Spouse: 3 wives

Issue: 8 Children's

Religion: Islam

EMIR SABAH AL-AHMAD AL-JABER AL-SABAH

(KUWAIT) Full Name: Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah

Father’s Name: Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Mother’s Name: Munira Al - Ayyar

House: Al Sabah

Born: 16 June 1929

Born Place: Kuwait City, Kuwait


Predecessor: Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah

Heir apparent: Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah

Spouse: 1 wife

Issue: 4 Children's

Religion: Islam

SULTAN QABOOS BIN SAID AL SAID

(OMAN) Full Name: Qaboos bin Said al Said

Father’s Name: Said bin Taimur Mother’s Name: Mazoon al-Mashani

House: Al Said

Born: 18 November 1940

Born Place: Salalah, Oman

Reign: 23 July 1970 – present

Predecessor: Said bin Taimur

Spouse: 1 wife

Religion: Islam

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A list of current monarch's in the world