BLUE BLOODS

ROYAL YOUNG MEN

KIM JONG-UN, 33

The first North Korean leader to be born after the country’s founding in 1948, he was 28 when he became the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea

SHEIKH TAMIM BIN HAMAD AL THANI, 37

The eighth and current Emir of Qatar was the youngest reigning monarch among Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries as of 2013, when he took over from his father

JIGME KHESAR NAMGYEL WANGCHUCK, 37

The fifth and reigning Druk Gyalpo or Dragon King of Bhutan was 26 when he assumed the throne in 2006, the very year that the kingdom celebrated 100 years of the monarchy