Body of King Oyo Nyimba returns to Uganda for burial
The body of Uganda’s King Oyo Nyimba, who became the world’s youngest reigning monarch when he took the throne at the age of three in 1995, arrived back in the country on Friday after his death from cancer, and ahead of burial on September 12.
King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV of Tooro Kingdom, one of many traditional monarchies in the country and located near the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda’s west, died on August 27 in the United States where he was receiving treatment.
A video of his taking the throne in 1995 shows a little boy sitting in his chair playing with a toy, his small body almost disappearing underneath the huge royal crown and robes.
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