Tupou VI
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Tupou in 2025 | |||||
| King of Tonga | |||||
| Reign | 18 March 2012 – present | ||||
| Coronation | 4 July 2015 | ||||
| Predecessor | George Tupou V | ||||
| Heir apparent | Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala | ||||
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| Prime Minister of Tonga | |||||
| In office 3 January 2000 – 11 February 2006 | |||||
| Monarch | Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV | ||||
| Preceded by | Baron Vaea | ||||
| Succeeded by | Feleti Sevele | ||||
| Born | 12 July 1959 Nukuʻalofa, Tonga | ||||
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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 (born ʻAho‘eitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho; 12 July 1959) is King of Tonga. He served as Prime Minister of Tonga from 2000 to 2006 during the reign of his father King Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV.
Following his elder brother's accession to the Tongan throne as George Tupou V, he became heir presumptive, as his brother had no legitimate children. In 2008, he was appointed Tonga's High Commissioner to Australia and resided in Canberra until his elder brother's death on 18 March 2012, upon which he became King of Tonga. He was crowned in 2015 by the Reverend D'Arcy Wood.
Key events in Tupou VI's reign included the 2022 Hunga Tonga–Hunga Haʻapai eruption and tsunami and a constitutional crisis resulting from his dismissal of members of Prime Minister Siaosi Sovaleni's cabinet.