Sikhanyiso Dlamini was educated in
Britain at a mixed
private school,
St Edmund's College, Ware, in
Hertfordshire, where she was in Challoner House. She continued to study drama at
Biola University in
California, US. In 2012, Princess Sikhanyiso graduated from the
University of Sydney with a master's degree in digital communication. While in Australia, she resided in
Glebe with her palace-appointed aide, Yemma Sholo. She is the first child of Inkhosikati LaMbikiza and has more than two hundred blood-related uncles and aunts through her grandfather, King
Sobhuza II, who had seventy wives and two hundred and one children. She is also one of his approximately one thousand grandchildren in the Royal Swazi
House of Dlamini. She is the first-born of three children born to
King Mswati III and
Inkhosikati LaMbikiza. She has two hundred aunts and uncles, not including their spouses. In 2001, Mswati III instituted the
umchwasho—a traditional chastity rite—in Swaziland as a means of combating the
AIDS epidemic. The princess became a focus of controversy because, while she was staying abroad, she was not bound by the strictures of the
umchwasho. While studying abroad, Princess Sikhanyiso was reported to have ignored or rejected some of her country's traditions. ==Controversies==