Hirut Desta
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Princess Hirut Desta (also Princess Ruth Desta)[1][2] was the daughter of Ras Desta Damtew and Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie, and granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.[citation needed] 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 Desta | |||||
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Princess of Ethiopia | |||||
Born | (1930-04-20)20 April 1930 Ethiopian Empire | ||||
Died | 2015 (aged 84–85) London | ||||
Spouse | General Nega Tegegn | ||||
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House | House of Solomon | ||||
Father | Desta Damtew | ||||
Mother | Princess Tenagnework | ||||
Religion | Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo |
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.