The kingdom's absolute monarch, wore a suit of diamonds weighing 6 kg and received a cake with 52 layers at his birthday party attended by 700 guests.
A few days earlier he received his second private jet that after VIP upgrading might have cost US$30 million.
Meanwhile, seven in ten of his 1.1 million subjects live in abject poverty with incomes less than US$2 per day and 640,000 of them in need of food.
The Observer on Saturday, a newspaper in Swaziland in effect owned by the King, reported (21 April 2018) the cake was 'fit for a King'.
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