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/ 26 September 2005

Swazi king picks wife number thirteen

Africa’s last absolute monarch, Swaziland’s King Mswati III, has picked his 13th wife, a palace spokesperson said on Sunday. Seventeen-year-old Phindile Nkambule, who finished her final exams in June to allow her to join the royal house, was unveiled as his next wife-to-be at a traditional reed dance ceremony at the weekend.