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Bonang Matheba is living her best life in New York City Prince Charles almost broke Queen Elizabeth’s crown

LIAM KARABO JOYCE liam.joyce@inl.co.za BANG SHOWBIZ

WE ALL know the lyrics to the hit song Smile by Lil Duval, along with Snoop Dogg and others, in which he says “I’m living my best life”.

Well, one South African personality really is living her best life, enjoying summer in New York City.

While others in her age group wonder when they will get their Covid19 vaccine back in Mzansi, Bonang Matheba has been vaccinated and is enjoying time out and about in New York City.

The media personality, who relocated to the Big Apple last month, has updated her followers on social media since landing in the USA. From receiving her Covid-19 vaccine to giving her fans a little tour of her flat in the Upper East Side and more recently, attending a picnic in Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn.

Last month, when asked by a Twitter user where she was, Bonang said: “I’ve relocated… go to my stories”.

The star will be based in both the US and SA.

When Queen B flew to New York City she did not initially let fans in on why she was there, but later posted a video on her Instagram stories of getting a Covid-19 vaccination.

In a video, a nurse administrating the vaccine pulls down Bonang’s sleeve, swabs her arm and says: “That’s good, relax that arm … all right here we go, one small step for mankind”, before injecting Bonang with the Covid-19 vaccine.

Last month the former Afternoon Express presenter sued a local podcaster, Rea Gopane, for R500 000 after a video of him went viral, following his comments on the death of Anele “Nellie” Tembe, her ex-boyfriend rapper AKA’S fiancée, in April.

In the video, Rea and his co-host discussed the circumstances of Tembe’s death and how, at her funeral, her father, Durban businessman Moses Tembe, alluded to his daughter possibly having a problem with substance abuse.

“We know AKA, let’s not hide from the truth.

“Scoop (TV presenter Scoop Makhathini) told us that AKA is on cocaine and Bonang is the one that got him on to cocaine.

“Scoop told us that, so we know that AKA is into hard drugs,” Rea said.

PRINCE Charles almost broke his mother Queen Elizabeth’s priceless crown.

The incident occurred just after the queen’s coronation when the then four-year-old Prince of Wales made a grab for the prized possession, with only the mother of Princess Margaret’s former lady-in-waiting’s swift thinking and response preventing a potential disaster.

That’s according to 88-year-old Lady Anne Glenconner, who was Princess Margaret’s lady-in-waiting from 1971 until her death in 2002.

She is the daughter of Thomas Coke, 5th Earl of Leicester and his wife Lady Elizabeth York.

Speaking on jeweller Annoushka Ducas’ podcast ‘My Life in Seven Charms’, Lady Anne told the tale of the young prince’s immediate fascination with his mother’s glimmering crown, which could so easily have resulted in it being smashed to smithereens.

After the host asked her if she’d ever tried the crown on herself, Lady Anne, said: “I wouldn’t dare touch it. No, no, completely sacred.

“Prince Charles got his paws on it, however old he was, when we got back to Buckingham Palace.

“Because (the Queen) took it off, put it on a table, and Prince Charles made a beeline for it. And we thought he was going to drop it.

“We thought, ‘Oh my goodness that would be a bad omen’.

“But luckily, I think my mother, as a lady-in-waiting, seized it from him and took it away.”

Lady Anne also revealed that the Queen would sometimes wear the St Edwards Crown, which is said to weigh more than 1kg and is adorned with almost 3 000 precious stones, while writing letters in order to practice for official engagements.

“I think Prince Charles says he remembers going in and seeing her (wearing it). And asked her why she's wearing it and she said she was practicing.” The crown was originally made in 1661 for King Charles II, but although it’s been traditionally used to crown monarchs since the 13th century, only a total of six have actually been crowned with it.

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