(2021-11-11)11 November 2021 (age 87) Greater London
Spouse
Captain Dereje Haile Mariam
Issue
Emebet Hannah Mariam Meherete Selassie Dereje
Names
Immabet Sophia
House
House of Solomon
Father
Ras Desta Damtew
Mother
Princess Tenagnework
Religion
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
Princess Sophia Desta (25 November 1934 – 11 November 2021[1]) was the youngest daughter of Ras Desta Damtew and Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie, and granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.[citation needed] She was educated at Clarendon School for Girls in the United Kingdom together with her three sisters, Aida, Hirut Desta (Ruth) and Sebel.[2] 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.[3]
She was the widow of Captain Dereje Haile Mariam, graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the U.K.[4] 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 was born in 1936 and he was killed at Addis Ababa, at the Genuete Luel Palace while defending the Emperor against a palace coup d'état 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 in February 1961, Addis Ababa) and educated at Clarendon School for Girls. 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.
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"Consolidados desta terça-feira (21/05/13)". otvfoco.com.br (in Portuguese). 22 May 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2017. "Confira os consolidados desta terça-feira...
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