Yeta III CBE was a king of Barotseland, of the Lozi people in what is now Western Zambia.
[1] Yeta married a woman called Kumayo who became his consort at Sefula Church in 1892.
His children were: Yeta was enthroned at Lealui on 13 March 1916, and abolished the traditional system of corvee, the last vestige of slavery on 1 April 1925.
Yeta attended the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth at Westminster Abbey in London, but experienced a severe stroke which caused partial paralysis and loss of speech in early 1939.
[2] Yeta's secretary wrote: "The Coronation was the greatest event we ever saw or will ever see in our lives again.