THE OPTIMIST : Giving royal love a chance

Giving royal love a chance The young brother of Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi recently gave Mengo a sigh of relief after finally finding his “missing rib” in Marion Nankya who he is meant to wed early next year.

At only 46 and with his love in her 20s, it’s flabbergasting that the Internet is already inundated with malicious stories of how he is way too old for her, and how she doesn’t love him; that the rustle of his money and the privileges that come with royality were too alluring to resist. The implication is that the poor girl is a gold-digger and shameless opportunist. The detractors went on that she may get all the silver and gold in the world, but that she will find the Prince, who allegedly is a satyr who loves his parties and women, too hard to tame.

These speculations and prejudices that people harbour in their innermost hearts are frankly contemptible. The pursuit of happiness is an inalienable right that the Prince should be left to enjoy without people picking his private life apart and pointing discriminative fingers at his age. What if he took long to marry? Must love be harried for one’s morals to find validation?

As for Nankya, she is not the daughter of a pauper. Her father is the well-off MP for Bukoto South Hon. Mathias Nsubuga who has given his daughter a good life. Besides, she is educated, intelligent and beautiful and does not therefore need to sponge off Mengo to live a good life. Rather work harder on your own relationship and resurrect the spark, or find your own love instead of blabbering as the prince and his bride-to-be seek to be happy.

The two are certainly a perfect match. Nankya should be congratulated for “stealing” the prince’s love, and the prince should be applauded for realising it’s time he settled down. With his maturity, wealth, exposure and love for a life of glitter, he will make the best husband for a modern lady as “smoking hot” as Nankya.

Also, be sure that with his alleged experiences with other women, he will not be fumbling about in the dark when it comes to intimate moments of married life. The Kabaka is assured of beautiful nieces and handsome nephews to play on his laps since Prince Richard Ssemakokiro must now be too big for that.