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Knighted Again – Ch.36 | KT OLLA

SAND and Muse performance came to an end with a standing ovation. Yet there was no fanfare or any effort to scream raving cheers.

It was a piece of everyone’s story. And each person standing felt like musing on.

Samba George was equally musing in the audience. She was seated in the event married already.

Samba was there with her husband to see their friends perform. She’d just been wedded to Collins.

Now while Nile and Vickie were away, the lady had got a new employment and had gone on to wed.

Then the musicians had returned to work with a new staff as their manager.

Yet Samba and Collins wouldn’t stop gushing over the duo. They had remained top fans.

So it was time to announce the Crown Prince. And along with announcing him, the king would be revealing Zadeque.

He’d been prepared for this day in the past one year. For he’d be decorated alongside his son. 

Now King Maqwela I of the Cape Island Kingdom mounted the stage as the people settled down.

He addressed the assembly with a smile.

‘People of our noble heritage young and old, great and small:

‘It is no news today that Maqwela I of this great kingdom has no one to call heir.

‘It is equally no news that I was going to be the first king to have no child from my line to succeed me.

‘Indeed, the Almighty has blessed us with everything that makes for life. But it is this bundle of joy He has held back.

‘Nevertheless, as we say, the sky does not burn with fire without wetting the ground too. So also the God of Heaven has left me a successor in a kindred arms.

‘There is my one and only brother, the older one of my father’s sons.

‘He had ceded the throne to me when my father Chaka-Hulu III of yesterday, joined our ancestors.

‘He was away for some reasons and is back now with a wife and a prince.

‘I spoke with him when I saw the promising boy.

‘The prince is a replica of my brother, so I love him.

‘So, I spoke to him that he should let his son be my heir, as I value his sacrifice in ceding the throne to me.

‘No, I didn’t order this great man – I begged him!

‘I believe that Heaven designed his return to us.’

The King paused a second to mark reactions. The people were curious.

So he resumed.

‘Prince Zadeque is the name of this selfless man. And he agreed that I adopt his son as mine.

‘His son is Zadeque Junior and today we name him Crown Prince.

‘And for the sacrifice of a man with a heart of gold, we award the Senior Zadeque with a royal laurel.

‘We name him the King Lieutenant of Basini Isle, Royal representative of our reign in capital!’

The people applauded at that point. It was their acceptance of the man.

Now the noble position of King Lieutenant in the island nation was first used by the country’s first king, the Chaka-Hulu I.

The title was the variant of top state positions as Lord Lieutenant in some present day kingdoms and the lieutenant governor in some republics.

It meant, in Cape Island, an associate of the monarchy standing in for him in civil affairs in any of its five islets.

So, King Maqwela called over the royal family of honour... the King Lieutenant and his wife Princess Yalowe.

The couple walked in bearing their baby, Crown Prince Zadeque the Younger.

The call was soaring and the people rose to cheer.

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