Letsie III of Lesotho
King of Lesotho since 1996
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Born 1963 · age 63
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The king who ascended twice — first when his father was exiled, then again after a fatal car crash — and used the throne to name HIV/AIDS a national disaster in a country where the epidemic was silently hollowing out a generation.
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Born Mohato Bereng Seeiso on 17 July 1963, Letsie became King of Lesotho in 1990 when his father, Moshoeshoe II, was forced into exile. The throne shuffled in 1995 when his father was briefly restored, only for a car crash in early 1996 to kill him and return Letsie to a second reign. As a constitutional monarch, his role is largely ceremonial, but in 2000 he took a defining step: he declared HIV/AIDS a natural disaster, triggering immediate national and international response in a country where the epidemic had been quietly devastating. The declaration remains the sharpest use of his symbolic…
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