Princess Sikhanyiso
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| Principal Princess of Swaziland | |
Princess Sikhanyiso at the 2006 Umhlanga
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| Reign | Inkhosatana (Chief Maiden: head of the Imbali regiment), September 1997 |
| Predecessor | Principal Princess Betfusile |
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1 September 1987 Mbabane, Swaziland |
| House | House of Dlamini |
| Father | Mswati III |
| Mother | Sibonelo Mngometulu (Inkhosikati La Mbikiza) |
| Religion | Christianity |
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Styles of Princess Sikhanyiso Dlamini of Swaziland |
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| Reference style | Her Royal Highness |
| Spoken style | Your Royal Highness |
| Alternative style | Ma'am |
Princess Sikhanyiso of Swaziland (born 1 September, 1987) is the eldest daughter of King Mswati III of Swaziland. She is the first of his thirty children, and her mother is the first of King Mswati's ten queens, Inkhosikati LaMbikiza.
Sikhanyiso Dlamini was educated in Britain at a mixed private school, St Edmund's College, Ware, in Hertfordshire, where she was in Challoner House. She continued to study drama at Biola University in California. In 2012, Princess Sikhanyiso graduated from Sydney University with a master's degree in digital communication. While in Australia, she resided in Glebe with her palace-appointed aide, Yemma Sholo. She is the first child of Inkhosikati LaMbikiza and has more than two hundred blood-related uncles and aunts through her grandfather, King Sobhuza II, who had seventy wives and two hundred and one children. She is also one of his one thousand grandchildren in the Royal Swazi House of Dlamini.
She is the first-born of thirty children born to [[Mswati III|King Mswati III], her mother being Mswati III's young love, Inkhosikati LaMbikiza (Sibonelo Mngomezulu). She has two hundred aunts and uncles, not including their spouses.
In 2001, Mswati III instituted the umchwasho—a traditional chastity rite—in Swaziland as a means of combatting the AIDS epidemic. The princess became a focus of controversy while she was staying abroad, she was not bound by the strictures of the umchwasho. While studying abroad, Princess Sikhanyiso developed a reputation for ignoring or rebelling against her native country's traditions. Sikhanyiso wears Western-style jeans and miniskirts, something women in Swaziland are banned from doing.
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