A “Royal marriage” of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, took place last weekend in Accra. The ceremony was performed the customary way and not Europeanised.

The lucky lady, Julia, is a lawyer by profession and a banker, now with the ECOBANK. Julia, now in her 30s, is an ex-student of the Wesley Girls High School, Cape Coast. She was called to the Bar in 1994, after obtaining her first degree from the University of Ghana, Legon, and completing her professional course at the Ghana Law School in Accra.

Dubbed a special “kente wedding,” Julia, an Akan, was full of smiles, as she hooked the most eligible bachelor of our time, to the surprise of close associates, who saw very little of the courtship.

Coincidentally, the son of President J.A. Kufuor also tied the knot with his wife on the very next day. It was, therefore, a weekend of Big Receptions. Meanwhile, Otumfuo is expected to forego part of his honeymoon, mediating in the Yendi crisis alongside two other paramount chiefs.