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Apr 20, 1930 Died on 01 Jan 0001 (aged 1929)
Ethiopian Princess
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About Hirut 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 Clarendon School, 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.
