Central African dictator Jean-Bedel Bokassa & his wife Catherine during his coronation as “Emperor of Central Africa,” 1977. The ceremony was so extravagant that it cost a 3rd of the country’s entire annual budget to carry out. None of the world leaders invited to the event attended (1920×1080)

From his Wikipedia page, in a discussion of criminal charges after a successful coup against him in 1979.

> One of the most lurid allegations against Bokassa was that of cannibalism. Former President Dacko was called to the witness stand to testify that he had seen photographs of butchered bodies hanging in the cold-storage rooms of Bokassa’s palace immediately after the 1979 coup. Photographs apparently showing a fridge in the palace that contained the bodies of schoolchildren were also published in Paris Match magazine. When the defence put up a reasonable doubt during the cross-examination of Dacko that he could not be positively sure if the photographs he had seen were of dead bodies to be used for consumption, Bokassa’s former chef was called to testify that he had cooked human flesh stored in the walk-in freezers and served it to Bokassa on an occasional basis. The prosecution did not examine rumours that Bokassa had served some of the flesh of his victims to visiting foreign dignitaries.