The Daily Beast
US · 2 hrs ago
World’s Youngest Reigning Monarch Dies at 34
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The youngest reigning monarch who rose to power at just three years old in 1995 has died. The royal family of the Kingdom of Tooro announced that Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV was critically ill and receiving treatment in the U.S. around noon on August 27. He passed away at 10 p.m. that same night at just 34 years old, and the cause of death has not been publicly released. As the 13th monarch of a kingdom founded in the early 19th Century, he was well…
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