Princess 'Maseeiso Mohato Seeiso (born 20 November 2004) is a princess of Lesotho, the second child of King

Letsie III of Lesotho Letsie III (born Mohato Bereng Seeiso; 17 July 1963) is King of Lesotho. He succeeded his father, Bereng Seeiso Moshoeshoe II, who was forced into exile in 1990. His father was briefly restored in 1995 but died in a car crash in early 1996, so ...

and his wife Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso. She was born at Maseru Private Hospital in

Maseru Maseru is the capital and largest city of Lesotho. It is also the capital of the Maseru District. Located on the Caledon River, Maseru lies directly on the Lesotho–South Africa border. Maseru had a population of 330,760 in the 2016 census. T ...

, the capital of

Lesotho Lesotho, formally the Kingdom of Lesotho and formerly known as Basutoland, is a landlocked country in Southern Africa. Entirely surrounded by South Africa, it is the largest of only three sovereign enclave and exclave, enclaves in the world, t ...

. Women are prohibited under

law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior, with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been variously described as a science and as the ar ...

from ruling in Lesotho, so neither 'Maseeiso nor her older sister

Senate A senate is a deliberative assembly, often the upper house or chamber of a bicameral legislature. The name comes from the ancient Roman Senate (Latin: ''Senatus''), so-called as an assembly of the senior (Latin: ''senex'' meaning "the el ...

are eligible; their younger brother

Lerotholi Lerotholi Letsie (c. 1836–1905) was the paramount chief of Basotho (modern Lesotho) from November 20, 1891 to August 19, 1905. Letsie is one of the chiefs whom led the 1880 Basuto Gun War, Basotho gun war which ended in basotho victory and indep ...

is the heir apparent. There has been some support recently for this law to change, however.

Ancestry

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Maseeiso Seeiso, Princess 2004 births Living people Lesotho Roman Catholics Lesotho royalty House of Moshesh People from Maseru Daughters of kings