This document contains biographical information about current heads of state of various countries. It provides details such as their full name, parents, date and place of birth, reign dates, spouse and children for each monarch. The heads of state represented include Queen Elizabeth II of the UK, King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa of Bahrain, Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah of Brunei, and others.
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
Religion: Sunni Islam
5. 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
Reign: 7 October 2000 – present
Predecessor: Jean
Heir apparent: Guillaume
Spouse: María Teresa Mestre y Batista
Issue: 5 Children's
6. 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: 30 January 1962
Born Place: Amman, Jordan
Reign: 7 February 1999 – present
Predecessor: Hussein
Heir apparent: Crown Prince Hussein
Spouse: Rania Al-Yassin
Issue: 4 Children's
Religion: Sunni Islam
7. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
Reign: 14 October 2004 – present
Predecessor: Norodom Sihanouk
Religion: Norodom Sihanouk
11. 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
Reign: 14 January 1972 – present
Predecessor: Frederick IX
Heir apparent: Crown Prince Frederik
Spouse: Henri de Laborde de Monpezat
Issue: 2 Children's
Religion: Lutheranism
12. 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
Reign: 7 February 1996 – present
Predecessor: Moshoeshoe II
Heir apparent: Lerotholi Seeiso
Spouse: Anna Mots'oeneng
Issue: 3 Children's
Religion: Roman Catholicism
13. 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
Religion: Sunni Islam
14. 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: 21 February 1937
Born Place: Skaugum, Norway
Reign: 17 January 1991 – present
Predecessor: Olav V
Heir apparent: Crown Prince Haakon
Spouse: Sonja Haraldsen (m. 1968)
Issue: 2 Children's
Religion: Lutheranism
15. 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: 31 December 1935
Born Place: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Reign: 23 January 2015 – present
Predecessor: Abdullah
Heir apparent: Muhammad bin Nayef
Issue: 9 Children's
Religion: Sunni Islam
16. 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: 30 January 1968
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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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: 5 December 1927
Born Place: Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Reign: 9 June 1946 – present
Predecessor: Ananda Mahidol
Heir apparent: Maha Vajiralongkorn
Spouse: Sirikit Kitiyakara (1950–present)
Issue: 4 Children's
Religion: Theravada Buddhism
20. 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.
Reign: 30 April 2013 – present
Predecessor: Beatrix
Heir apparent: Catharina-Amalia
Spouse: Máxima Zorreguieta Cerruti (m. 2002)
Issue: 3 Children's
Religion: Dutch Reformed
21. 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
Reign: 6 April 2005 – present
Predecessor: Rainier III
Heir apparent: Jacques
Spouse: Charlene Wittstock (m. 2011)
Issue: 2 Children's
Religion: Roman Catholicism
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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: 14 February 1945
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
25. 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
Reign: 25 June 2013 – present
Predecessor: Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani
Spouse: 3 wives
Issue: 8 Children's
Religion: Islam
26. 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
Reign: 29 January 2006 – present
Predecessor: Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah
Heir apparent: Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah
Spouse: 1 wife
Issue: 4 Children's
Religion: Islam
27. 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