Sophia Desta

Princess Sophia Desta is the youngest daughter of Ras Desta Damtew and Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie, and granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia. She was educated at Clarendon School for Girls in the United Kingdom together with her three sisters, Aida, Hirut Desta (Ruth) and Sebel.[1] Princess Sophia was imprisoned, mistreated and humiliated in the Alem Bekagn Kerchele prison, Addis Ababa together with her sisters, other princesses of the Imperial Family, from 1974 until 1988.[2]

Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia Desta
Princess of Ethiopia
Born (1934-01-01) 1 January 1934
Ethiopian Empire
SpouseCaptain Dereje Haile Mariam
IssueEmebet Hannah Mariam Meherete Selassie Dereje
Full name
Immabet Sophia
HouseHouse of Solomon
FatherRas Desta Damtew
MotherPrincess Tenagnework
ReligionEthiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
Imperial Family of Ethiopia

HIH The Crown Prince

  • HIH Princess Lideta Zera Yacob

HIH Prince Samson Fikre Selassie
HIH Prince Bekere Fikre Selassie
HIH Princess Donna Fikre Selassie
HIH Prince Yisehaq Fikre Selassie
HIH Princess Rahel Fikre Selassie
HIH Princess Aster Fikre Selassie
HIH Princess Meheret Fikre Selassie
HIH Princess Maryam Senna
HIH Princess Sehin Azebe

HIH Princess Sifrash Bizu

She is the widow of Captain Dereje Haile Mariam, graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the U.K. [3] She married him at Addis Ababa, on 31 January 1959 (in a double wedding with her sister Princess Seble-Wengel Desta. Captain Dereje Haile Mariam born in 1937 and he was killed at Addis Ababa, at the Genuete Luel Palace while defending the Emperor against a palace coup d'etat carried out by General Mengistu Newaye, head of the Imperial bodyguard on 16 December 1960. They had an only daughter:

  • Emebet Hannah Mariam Meherete Sellasie Dereje (born on February 1961, Addis Ababa). She married Lij Aklog Asfaw, son of Woizero Daremelesh and Colonel Asfaw Habte Mariam [[]] They had issue, one son:
    • Lij Desta Aklog born on October 4, 1994.


Title, style and honours

Title
  • 1 January 1934 - Present: Her Royal Highness Princess Sophia Desta of Ethiopia

Honours

National dynastic honours

Foreign honours

Ancestry
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References
  1. "Ethiopian princess tells Llandudno pupils about prison ordeal". North Wales Live. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  2. "Ethiopian princess tells Llandudno pupils about prison ordeal". Daily Post, North Wales Live. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  3. "Emperor Haile Selassie I, Part 3". Institute for African Alternatives. Archived from the original on November 20, 2006. Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  4. Boletín Oficial del Estado
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