Aniroodh Sivaraman, 

There is national karma, family karma and personal karma. These are settled mathematically by nature in the process of time, where it accurately sorts the accounting like an expert financier.

The present king’s act has to do with absolving national karma. A small percentage of it must be his personal karma as well. Thus, by intuition, while he is public with the national karma, he will satisfy any opportunity to settle his personal liabilities which fate serves to him.

Years ago, in Belgium Congo there was slavery and during that time, the king never visited Africa but he gave orders and there was wholesale butchery of tribal people there. Most of us know about Spanish, Portuguese and British slavery, but we know little about the worse situation which occurred in Congo.