Muwenda Mutebi II of Buganda

He is the 36th Kabaka of Buganda.

He was appointed as UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador for Ending AIDS among men in the Eastern and Southern Africa with a special focus on Buganda Kingdom in Uganda.

He was born at Mengo Hospital.

He is the son of Edward Frederick William David Walugembe Mutebi Luwangula Muteesa II, Kabaka of Buganda, who reigned between 1939 and 1969.

His mother was Nabakyala Sarah Nalule, Omuzaana Kabejja, of the Nkima clan.

He was educated at Budo Junior School, King's Mead School in Sussex and Bradfield College, a public school in West Berkshire.

He then entered Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Ronald Edward Frederick Kimera Muwenda Mutebi II (born 13 April 1955) is King of the Kingdom of Buganda.

At the age of 11, he was appointed as Heir Apparent by his father on 6 August 1966.

While in exile he worked as Associate Editor of the magazine African Concord and a member of the Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in London.

On 21 November 1969, upon the death of his father,he succeeded as Kabaka

He returned to Uganda in 1988, following the removal of the Obote II regime and the military junta that briefly replaced Obote II.

He was proclaimed at Buddo on 24 July 1993 upon the restoration of the Ugandan Kingdoms, following the intervention of Godfrey Serunkuma Lule.

On 31 July 1993, he was crowned at Buddo.

He assumed the style of "His Majesty".

He maintains his capital at Mengo.

Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II is married to Sylvia Nagginda, whom he wed on 27 August 1999 at Saint Paul's Cathedral Namirembe, in Kampala.

Her official title is the Nnabagereka.

The children of Kabaka Ronald Muwenda Mutebi II include the following:

The university was founded in 2007 and named in memory of Muteesa I of Buganda, in recognition of his foresight in promoting education in Buganda and Uganda and of his superior diplomatic skills in juggling the influences of the British, the French, and the Arabs in the late 1800s.

As the head of the Buganda kingdom, he owns Nkuluze Trust, which runs the following kingdom properties:

The peaceful lion, The Ssabalongo (head of twin parents), magulu nyondo, Ssaabasajja

On 15 April 2011, he was installed as the first chancellor of Muteesa I Royal University.