Editing Tupou VI (section)

{{Short description|King of Tonga since 2012}}
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{{Infobox royalty
| name         = Tupou VI
| image        = Dinner for His Majesty King Tupou VI of the Kingdom of Tonga and Her Majesty Queen Nanasipau’u 04.jpg
| caption      = Tupou VI in 2019
| succession   = [[List of monarchs of Tonga|King of Tonga]]
| reign        = 18 March 2012 – present
| coronation   = 4 July 2015<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.tonga-broadcasting.net/uploads/2/8/1/9/2819652/media_release_2014_dec_5___tonga_national_public_holidays_for_2015.pdf|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150111213621/http://www.tonga-broadcasting.net/uploads/2/8/1/9/2819652/media_release_2014_dec_5___tonga_national_public_holidays_for_2015.pdf|url-status=dead|title=Tonga National Public Holidays for 2015|archivedate=11 January 2015}}</ref>
| predecessor  = [[George Tupou V]]
| suc-type     = Heir apparent
| successor    = [[Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala]]
| reg-type     = {{nowrap|[[Prime Minister of Tonga|Prime Ministers]]}}
| regent       = {{Collapsible list|title=''See list''|3=[[Sialeʻataongo Tuʻivakanō]]<br />[[ʻAkilisi Pōhiva]]<br />[[Semisi Sika]] (Acting)<br />[[Pohiva Tuʻiʻonetoa]]<br />[[Siaosi Sovaleni]]<br />[[Samiu Vaipulu]] (Acting)<br />[[ʻAisake Eke]]<br />}}
| succession1  = 13th [[Prime Minister of Tonga]]
| reg-type1    = Monarch
| regent1      = [[Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV]]
| reign1       = 3 January 2000 – 11 February 2006
| reign-type1  = Term
| predecessor1 = [[Baron Vaea]]
| successor1   = [[Feleti Sevele]]
| spouse       = {{marriage|[[Nanasipauʻu Tukuʻaho|Nanasipauʻu Vaea]]|1982|}}
| issue        = [[Princess Lātūfuipeka Tukuʻaho]]<br />[[Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala|Crown Prince Tupoutoʻa ʻUlukalala]]<br />[[Prince Ata]]
| full name    = ʻAhoʻeitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho
| house        = [[House of Tupou|Tupou dynasty]]
| father       = [[Tāufaʻāhau Tupou IV]]
| mother       = [[Halaevalu Mataʻaho ʻAhomeʻe]]
| birth_date   = {{birth date and age|1959|7|12|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Nukuʻalofa]], [[Kingdom of Tonga (1900–1970)|Kingdom of Tonga]]
| religion     = [[Free Wesleyan Church]]
| module       = {{infobox person | embed=yes
  | alma_mater = [[University of East Anglia]]<br>[[University of New South Wales]]<br>[[Bond University]]
|signature=His Majesty King Tupou VI (signature).svg
}}
}}
'''Tupou VI''' (ʻAho‘eitu ʻUnuakiʻotonga Tukuʻaho; born 12 July 1959) is [[List of monarchs of Tonga|King of Tonga]].

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 [[Tongan throne]] as [[George Tupou V]], he was officially confirmed as the [[heir presumptive]] on 27 September 2006, because his brother had no legitimate children. In 2008, he was appointed Tonga's [[High commissioner (Commonwealth)|High Commissioner]] to [[Australia]], and resided in [[Canberra]] until the death of George Tupou V on 18 March 2012, when he became King of Tonga, with the [[regnal name]] Tupou VI. He was crowned in 2015 by the Reverend [[D'Arcy Wood (minister)|D'Arcy Wood]].