Check out the diamond clothes wore by Swazi monarch to celebrate his 50th birthday.

King Mswati III, of eSwetini formerly known as Swaziland recently celebrated his 50th birthday with so much pomp and pagentry

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'.