Swaziland's King Mswati III has chosen an 18-year-old attractiveness pageant contestant as his 14th wife.
According to his castle spokesman, the king has presented to the territory his new liphovela (royal fiancee), 18 years vintage Sindiswa Dlamini.
The juvenile woman graduated from Mbabane's St. Francis High School last year and is a finalist in the overlook Cultural Heritage attractiveness pageant.
As part of Swazi custom, monarch Mswati III, 45, is allowed to choose a new bride every year.
therefore, thousands of young young women gather every year and promenade for the king at a reed promenade in alignment to
give monarch Mswati III the opportunity to select another wife.
The marriage only takes location one time the chosen virgin bride falls with child.
His wives are kept in their castle, enclosed by bodyguards, and they can’t actually go anywhere except the king states so.
The only thing they do is proceed to America once a year, as the monarch gives them a buying allowance.
The dad of 27 children, 45-year-old monarch Mswati III was a visitor at the William and Kate wedding as well as the Queen’s precious gem Jubilee celebrations last summer.
Three wives left his house in latest years. The latest, Queen LaGija, fled the castle in 2012 claiming years of personal and emotional misuse.
Another queen, LaDube, was reportedly abused after she was apprehended in bed with the justice minister, a close friend of the king.
Mswati had kidnapped and wed the queen when she was 16 in 2005.
The king has furthermore come under blaze for his household's lavish way of life.
Mswati reportedly has a individual treasure of round $200 million and the
UN estimates that 70 per hundred of his 1.2 million topics live underneath the scarcity line

