[1] Ntare VI was born as John Patrick Barigye in January 1940 to Omugabe (King) Charles Godfrey Gasyonga II of Ankole /Nkore kingdom, Uganda and Queen Constance Ndyomwishiki.
Barigye graduated in economics from Cambridge University in England in 1962 and has subsequently been ambassador in West Germany and the Vatican.
[2] He died in October 2011 at the age of 71 and was succeeded by his son, the current titular King Charles Rwebishengye.
The kingship in Ankole is still not restored, contrary to the other kingdoms in Uganda viz Toro, Buganda and Bunyoro.
President Museveni himself nullified the coronation in 1993, saying the people of Ankole had to decide.