We feared UK woman would show up - Serwadda narrates tense moment at royal wedding

Fears were growing fast that the wedding would be disrupted by Alison Anna Gabula, a woman who claims to have been married to the King.

One of the invited guests, Pastor Joseph Serwadda described a very tense moment when the Church leadership called for those opposed to the King’s wedding to “speak now, or forever hold your piece.”

According to Pastor Sserwadda, who heads the Born Again Pentecostal Churches in Uganda, rumours had started spreading earlier before the wedding that Alison was likely to show up abruptly at the church.

“I heard this before I got there, that the woman was going to come. So I went ready,” Sserwadda said on Sunday morning during a televised talk show.

“I was even seated strategically facing the pulpit and had a good view of the bride and groom, my phone on standby. I was going to capture every moment of it if it came to that.”

"It was a very tense moment for every one...the Archbishop asked the question in three different languages, and we all waited."

On three different occasions as per the wedding tradition, the main celebrants led by Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba Mugalu called out anybody with a genuine reason for the Kyabazinga and Inhebantu Jovia Mutesi not to be united in holy marriage, to come forward and speak out.

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These calls were followed by seemingly anxious silence, and later on cheers of relief when no one stepped forward.

Alison Anna Gabula, a UK-based woman had attempted, weeks before the wedding, to have it cancelled by petitioning the Church of Uganda. She also threatened to take up with the courts of law.

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She claimed to have been married to the Kyabazinga in 2016 and had children with him

In his sermon, during the wedding service, Archbishop Kaziimba said a team of legal minds including top lawyers, two judges and a senior government official came together to fight off Alison’s threats.