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She has unceremoniously walked out of the palace.

For Queen Aanuoluwapo, her beautiful marriage to the ageing monarch of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi, is over!

When the news broke out via a popular blog on Instagram recently that Queen Anuoluwapo has left the ancient Oyo palace, many were skeptical. Why should that be when she had granted an interview to BBC Africa and spoken highly of the 82-year-old monarch as a great husband, her teacher, and a generous spouse who has made her a fulfilled woman despite the fact that she is in her 20s?

She is the second queen to leave the palace after Queen Ajoke moved out of the palace some months ago.

According to her, she was under bondage and it was time to walk out of the marriage.

Aanu, the beautiful queen left the palace a few weeks ago when one of the young queens, Damilola was allegedly ill-treated by the palace authorities.

However, if Queen Aanu thought leaving the palace would be as easy as she thought, then she might be wrong.

Just some hours ago on Instagram, she revealed via a post that her life was not only threatened but there were failed

attempts to kidnap her.

Still an undergraduate, her education is being sponsored by the Alaafin who, Queen Anu revealed, loves quality education for his young queens.

Well, it seems Queen Anu has pitched her tent elsewhere and is now a ‘normal slayqueen’ on social media and not an ancient Oyo empire Oloori.

A mother of two (set of twins) she ignored Kabiyesi on his 82^nd birthday celebration and didn’t send her usual birthday shout-out.

But she uploaded photos of herself and children when they had their birthdays some days after.

Meanwhile, Queen Damilola has found her way back to the palace and has started posting photos of Kabiyesi with the usual eulogies accompanying such posts.

Already, palace authorities are said to be uncomfortable with the negative media this revelation from Anu is generating.

A palace source told Kemi Ashefon, “She is a senseless girl and the Kabiesi is the last person to o whatever she has posted. They are all lies. This was a girl from nowhere that Baba sent to school and brushed up. Now, she wants to bite the fingers that fed her. Why should Baba attempt kidnapping a girl that is like his grandaughter? Who said her family is being threatened? Do you know the number of wives in the king’s harem? Why should Anu be that important? Baba has nothing to say on the matter.”