Drum Magazine social history photographs, South Africa edition 1824

The No 1 Bachelor And His Royal Bride To Be – His Royal Highness. Xhosana Constantine Bereng Seeiso, Moshoeshoe II, Paramount Chief of Basutoland, enjoys, at age of 23, the overwhelming support of his subjects who number 800 000. He receives a salary of £360 a month. Bereng left Basutoland a shy young man of 16 to study in England. He was a Corpus Christi College, Oxford, when he left England to assume his rule of Basutoland in 1960. A tall, slim bespectacled young man, he has been leading a somewhat lonely life at his kraal in the hills of Matsiene, with few friend of his age and educational background. But now he'll have the Princess.