A few days earlier he received his second private jet that after VIP upgrading might have cost US$30 million.
Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, Gloria slowly backed away from the eight-foot bull frog. If the creature croaked she would surely be deafened...
seven in ten of his 1.1 million subjects live in abject poverty with incomes less than US$2 per day and 640,000 of them in need of food.
The Observer on Saturday, a newspaper in Swaziland in effect owned by the King, reported (21 April 2018) the cake was 'fit for a King'.
It reported, 'The cake comprised of 52 layers and it was white and gold and part of the decoration on it was the silver number 50.' It had been baked by a South African company.
The Observer also reported the King wore a blue suit that weighed 6 kg (13 lbs) and took eight months to make.
'It was hand made and beaded with diamonds,' it reported.
The King threw a garden party for 700 guests, including the President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen, and the Vice-President of Equatorial Guinea, Theodore Nguema Obiang Mangue, it added.
The King marked his birthday while more than one in three of his subjects were kept alive by international food aid. The World Food Program has reported 350,000 people are in need of emergency food assistance, with 640,000 potentially affected by some degree of food insecurity at the peak of the lean season.