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To: LindyBill who wrote (101482)	2/21/2005 1:10:24 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (2) of 793954

Atlantic Blog - This sort of thing tends to make government-to-government foreign aid look really, really bad. timesonline.co.uk King Mswati III of Swaziland, Africa’s last absolute monarch, has hit back at mounting criticism of his extravagant lifestyle by banning all photographs of a growing fleet of luxury cars. The British-educated king, who rules one of Africa’s poorest countries, arrived for the state opening of the rubber-stamp parliament last Friday in a new Mercedes S600 stretch limousine. Photographers were quickly warned by security guards not to take any pictures. Like the rest of his populace, they had expected the 36-year-old monarch to arrive in his £280,000 DaimlerChrysler Maybach 62 that he bought last December. A royal decree subsequently published in The Times of Swaziland declared that it was no longer permissible to take pictures of his majesty “when he alights from his car”. . . . As well as the Maybach 62, the king announced two weeks ago that he was spending £450,000 — almost half the £1 million UK aid his kingdom received last year — on buying ten BMW 5 series for his wives.

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