Hirut Desta’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Ethiopian Princess
Was Princess
Noble
From Ethiopia
Type Royals
Gender female
Birth

20 April 1930, Ethiopian Empire

Death

July 2014, London, UK
(aged 84 years)

Star sign Taurus
Family
Mother: Princess Tenagnework
Father: Desta Damtew
Siblings: Aida DestaSophia Desta

Princess Hirut Desta (also Princess Ruth Desta) was the daughter of Ras Desta Damtew and Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie, and granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia. 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.”

Princess Hirut was educated at the School of St Clare (renamed Bolitho School), Penzance, Cornwall, and at Clarendon School for Girls, Abergele, North Wales.

She was imprisoned by the Dergue from 1974 until 1988. Princess Hirut Desta died in London aged 84 in 2014, 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

8. Balambaras Ketena Abebe
8. Balambaras Ketena Abebe
4. Fitawrari Damtew Ketena
9. Woizero – –
2. Ras Desta Damtew
10. – –
5. –
11. Woizero – –
1. Immabet Ruth Desta
12. Ras Makonnen Woldemikael
6. Haile Selassie I
13. Woizero Yeshimebet Ali
3. Le’ult Tenagnework Haile Selassie
14. Dejazmach Asfaw Mikael
7. Itege Menen Asfaw
15. Woizero Sehin Mikael
8. Balambaras Ketena Abebe
4. Fitawrari Damtew Ketena
9. Woizero – –
2. Ras Desta Damtew
10. – –
5. –
11. Woizero – –
1. Immabet Ruth Desta
12. Ras Makonnen Woldemikael
6. Haile Selassie I
13. Woizero Yeshimebet Ali
3. Le’ult Tenagnework Haile Selassie
14. Dejazmach Asfaw Mikael
7. Itege Menen Asfaw
15. Woizero Sehin Mikael
4. Fitawrari Damtew Ketena
9. Woizero – –
2. Ras Desta Damtew
10. – –
5. –
11. Woizero – –
1. Immabet Ruth Desta
12. Ras Makonnen Woldemikael
6. Haile Selassie I
13. Woizero Yeshimebet Ali
3. Le’ult Tenagnework Haile Selassie
14. Dejazmach Asfaw Mikael
7. Itege Menen Asfaw
15. Woizero Sehin Mikael
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