{"id":199614,"date":"2025-06-06T01:39:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-queen-masenate-opens-up-about-her-passions\/"},"modified":"2025-06-06T01:39:02","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T23:39:02","slug":"lesotho-queen-masenate-opens-up-about-her-passions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/lesotho-queen-masenate-opens-up-about-her-passions\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesotho: Queen &#8216;Masenate Opens Up About Her Passions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">AS Her Majesty Queen &#8216;Masenate Mohato Seeiso prepares to celebrate her 49th birthday on Monday, she has granted Basotho an exclusive look into her life and work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">In an exclusive interview with the <em>Lesotho Times&#8217;<\/em> Deputy Editor, Bongiwe Zihlangu, Queen &#8216;Masenate spoke candidly about her deep commitment to philanthropy, her dedication to living a healthy lifestyle, and the central role that her faith in God and family play in her life.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">The Queen welcomed the <em>Lesotho Times<\/em> (LT) into her palace at&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506020569.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AS Her Majesty Queen &#8216;Masenate Mohato Seeiso prepares to celebrate her 49th birthday on Monday, she has granted Basotho an exclusive look into her life and work. In an exclusive interview with the Lesotho Times&#8217; Deputy Editor, Bongiwe Zihlangu, Queen &#8216;Masenate spoke candidly about her deep commitment to philanthropy, her dedication to living a healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670505:3549b5643d6306c129f74953ad0cbc5b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,4717,1407,51549,257,6975,51550,14063,254],"class_list":["post-199614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-lesotho","tag-lesotho-news","tag-masenate","tag-news","tag-opens","tag-passions","tag-queen","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670505:3549b5643d6306c129f74953ad0cbc5b:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}