Word: kingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the British dreamed of an East African federation combining Uganda, of which Buganda is officially a province, with Kenya and Tanganyika. But Cambridge-educated King Freddie, as he was known in Mayfair society, dreamed of independence. In 1953 the British rashly hustled him off into exile in London, had to back down when the Baganda threatened to become completely unmanageable. In 1955, as drums rolled and tom-toms boomed, King Freddie came home in triumph...
Since a condition of his return was Freddie's acceptance of the status of a constitutional monarch, Britain hoped that he might actually be a help in establishing a democratic government. But 33-year-old King Freddie is a proud man who represents a dynasty that goes back to the 15th century. No sooner was he safely back in his palace in Kampala than he began to show signs of wanting to be every inch the king his ancestors were...
...another, Freddie's supporters went after the leaders of those newfangled political parties with their talk of popular elections. They ousted two party presidents from the Lukiko, even had National Congress Party Chairman Joseph Kiwanuka tossed into jail on the charge that he was plotting to assassinate the King. Last month the Lukiko rejected a plan to hold direct elections for Buganda's five delegates to the British-sponsored Legislative Council of Uganda, followed up with a resolution withdrawing official recognition from all political parties...
These days King Freddie is being even more nettlesome than usual. This time his adversary is the Church of England, which has made half a million converts in Uganda, has long been tied to the forward-looking elements in the country. King Freddie, who was raised as an Anglican and crowned by the Bishop of Uganda himself, wants to divorce his attractive Queen Damali and marry her more vivacious older sister Sarah. He is annoyed that Anglican ecclesiastical law forbids it, has been hinting he might become a Moslem...
Into the Background. The affair between King Freddie and his sister-in-law has been an open secret in both London and Kampala. While the queen has drifted farther and farther into the background, unmarried sister Sarah has been getting a larger and larger share of the royal attention, now lives in the palace along with her two sons. King Freddie says frankly that they are his. He is less outspoken about Queen Damali's son, who was born in Kampala just nine months after the queen visited him in his London exile. The attending doctor declared that...