Hirut Desta
Template:Infobox royalty Princess Hirut Desta (also Princess Ruth Desta; 20 April 1930 - 2015)[1][2] was the daughter of Ras Desta Damtew and Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie, and granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". She was the widow of General Nega Tegegn, who was governor of the provinces of Begemder and Semien. She was described by Nathaniel T. Kenney as a "trim, most democratic of princesses," who "was not above grabbing a tool from a workman, I suspect, and showing him how to use it."[3]
Princess Hirut was educated at the School of St Clare (renamed Bolitho School), Penzance, Cornwall,[4] and at Clarendon School for Girls, Abergele, North Wales.
She was imprisoned by the Derg from 1974 until 1988. Princess Hirut Desta died in London aged 85 in 2015, and her funeral was conducted at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa.
Patronages
- President of the Committee for the Restoration of the Churches of Lalibela.
Honours
National honours
- Dame Grand Cordon of the Order of the Queen of Sheba.
- Imperial Coronation Medal (1930).
- Jubilee Medal (1955).
- Jubilee Medal (1966).
Ancestry
References
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- ↑ "Princess Tenagneworq" (obituary), in The Telegraph, London, 16 April 2003.
- ↑ Barbara W. Olson, Gondar, Ethiopia: 1971-1975 Guests in the Ethiopian Highlands and Children of Zemecha, AuthorHouse, 2011, p. 350.
- ↑ Kenney, "Ethiopian Adventure", National Geographic Magazine, vol. 127 (April 1965), p. 560.
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