Seville welcomes the Crucial event until tomorrow at a time where cooperation budgets diminish while humanitarian needs do not stop increasing by conflicts, political contexts and the climatic crisis.
The appointment brings together 60 heads of state and more 200 representatives of official delegations from countries around the world, of the closest to the farthest, which has forced to establish security controls never seen in the city since the universal exhibition of 92. And among the leaders there is everything: much power, sometimes shown with discretion, sometimes with exhibitionism. The latter is the least recommended at a summit of this nature, about cooperation, but there have also been cases of leaders who omit it.
There enters the King of Mshati III of Esuatini, better known as Suazilandia, a small country between Mozambique and South Africa. The maximum representative of this absolute monarchy – the last of Africa – is the second largest authority present in Seville, only behind King Felipe VI, and because he is the head of state of the host country.
As revealed the king has given much to talk about his demands these days, let’s say little ordinary. In the luxury hotel in the Hispanic capital in which it stays, it has requested up to a throne. What you read. “In addition, part of his team would have gone to a Sevillian copistería to print a real -size photograph of the monarch,” it is not known for what purpose, adds the newspaper.
The owner of the establishment has spoken with ABC And he tells that there were problems with the order, because the image came with very little quality and, when expanding it so much, he lost resolution and did not remain as they needed. “I don’t know if it would be to put it in the hotel room,” he says.
This week is the second visit of King Mshati III to Spain and specifically to Andalusia, since in 2019 he had a private visit to Malaga.
One of the main characteristics of his peculiar way of life is that at 57 he has 16 women; In fact, the noven has accompanied his visit to Seville. Inkosikati Lanomcebo, daughter of Jacob Zuma, president of South Africa from 2009 to 2018, is the last and youngest of them with 22 years, and together with whom he visited Pope Francis in the Vatican in October 2024 (although the king belongs to the Episcopal Church). In each international act, that is one of the questions, with which woman she will appear. In this case, according to the SER chain, it was thought that he was accompanied by his daughter, given the wife’s youth.
“The King travels with a delegation not too broad, but he has one of the best suites with a view of the hotel, already his step demands the same reverences as the Spanish monarch. The first day, before so much pleitesy, we asked and told us that rare minerals had appeared in their country and that it was the object of attention by other governments, but finally confirm that the rare minerals that have been found do not have that world level. Wife, only drinks green tea brought from extremely cold Ceylon “, who adds that the queen has been seen” purchases by El Corte Inglés and in a Zara store, with several attendees who wore their bags and climb to elegant heel shoes little suitable for walking through Seville with these heats. “
The context
Esuatini has a population of just over one million inhabitants, of which more than 90% is a Christian -theory of them Zionists with 40%; Catholics 30% and the rest are distributed between Anglicans, Mormons and other branches of Christianity.-
This small country that obtained its independence from the United Kingdom in 1968- after more than 60 years of English protectorate- was renamed Esuatini in 2018 on the king’s own initiative in the 50th anniversary of Independence. It was in 1986 when he accessed the throne, with only 18 years of age he agreed in the most young monarch of the moment. His father, King Shobhuza, married 125 women and had 210 children. In his case, he has 36 children, which makes him the monarch with more offspring in the world according to the Guinness record.
However, the reality of the Suazis moves a lot away from a life of luxury and ostentation. 59% of the population lives under the threshold of poverty, according to data from the Diplomatic Information Office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; So the spending of the monarch of 15 million euros in luxury cars for the 14 wives it had in 2019 was quite criticized. Also, Suazilandia is one of the nations with the highest concentration of people infected with the world in the world, with about 27% of its population. However, according to WHO, new infections in the country have fallen dramatically from 14,000 in 2010 to 4,300 in 2023.
