Tupou VI | |||||
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![]() Tupou VI in 2019 | |||||
King of Tonga | |||||
Reign | 18 March 2012 – present | ||||
Coronation | 4 July 2015[1] | ||||
Predecessor | George Tupou V | ||||
Heir apparent | Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala | ||||
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13th Prime Minister of Tonga | |||||
Term | 3 January 2000 – 11 February 2006 | ||||
Predecessor | Baron Vaea | ||||
Successor | Feleti Sevele | ||||
Monarch | Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV | ||||
Born | Royal Palace, Nukuʻalofa, Kingdom of Tonga | 12 July 1959||||
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Issue | Princess Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho Crown Prince Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala Prince Ata | ||||
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House | Tupou dynasty | ||||
Father | Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV | ||||
Mother | Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe | ||||
Religion | Free Wesleyan Church | ||||
Alma mater | University of East Anglia University of New South Wales Bond University | ||||
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Tupou VI (ʻAho‘eitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho; born 12 July 1959) is King of Tonga. He is the younger brother and successor of the late King George Tupou V.
The youngest child of King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV, he served as Prime Minister of Tonga from 2000 to 2006. Following his elder brother's accession to the Throne of Tonga, he was officially confirmed as the heir presumptive on 27 September 2006, as his brother had no legitimate children. In 2008, he was appointed Tonga's High Commissioner to Australia, and resided in Canberra until the death of King George Tupou V on 18 March 2012, when he became King of Tonga, with the regnal name Tupou VI. He also served as the Chancellor of the University of the South Pacific from 2013 to 2014. He was crowned in 2015 by the Reverend D'Arcy Wood.