Coronation of King Cetshwayo

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Coronation of King Cetshwayo. A real-life event, orchestrated by Sir Theophilus Shepstone, secretary of Native Affairs (1840s-1880s) in 1873, in which the king appeared in a cloak borrowed from the Pietermaritzburg Drama Society and a crown designed and made by the British colonial army.


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