Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam (born 9 February 1937) is the widow of

Prince Sahle Selassie Prince Sahle Selassie (Amharic: ልኡል ሣህለ ሥላሴ; 27 February 1931 – 24 April 1962) was the youngest child of Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw of Ethiopia. His full title was "His Imperial Highness, Prince Sahle Se ...

, youngest son of Emperor

Haile Selassie Haile Selassie I (born Tafari Makonnen or ''Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles#Lij, Lij'' Tafari; 23 July 189227 August 1975) was Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974. He rose to power as the Ethiopian aristocratic and court titles, Rege ...

Ethiopia Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa. It shares borders with Eritrea to the north, Djibouti to the northeast, Somalia to the east, Ken ...

. She is the daughter of ''

Dejazmach Until the end of the Ethiopian monarchy in 1974, there were two categories of nobility in Ethiopia and Eritrea. The Mesafint ( , modern transcription , singular መስፍን , modern , "prince"), the hereditary royal nobility, formed the upper ...

'' Habte Mariam Gebre-Igziabiher, also referred as Kumsa Moroda (

Oromo Oromo may refer to: * Oromo people, an ethnic group of Ethiopia and Kenya * Oromo language, an Afroasiatic language See also * *Orma (clan), Oromo tribe *Oromia Oromia (, ) is a Regions of Ethiopia, regional state in Ethiopia and the homelan ...

: ''Kumsaa Morodaa'') heir to the former

Welega Welega (also spelled Wollega; ; ) was a province in western Ethiopia, with its capital city at Nekemte. It was named for the Wollega Oromo, who are the majority of the population within its boundaries. Welega was bordered on the west by Sudan ...

Kingdom of Leqa Naqamte, and later served as governor of welega Province. Her mother was Woizero Yeshimebet Guma, granddaughter of Moti (King) Jote Tulu of Western

. noblewoman who was later married to Ras Mesfin Selashi, a leading Ethiopian aristocrat and close associate of Emperor

. Princess Mahisente is also the mother of Prince

Ermias Sahle Selassie Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie (born 14 June 1960) is the only son of Prince Sahle Selassie of Ethiopian Empire, Ethiopia and Princess Mahisente Habte Mariam. He is the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopian Empire, Ethiopi ...

, the current President of the

Crown Council of Ethiopia The Crown Council of Ethiopia is a community organization and cultural center with the mission of preserving the culture(s) of the former Ethiopian Empire, as well as promoting development and humanitarian efforts. Today, the Crown Council has aba ...

. Princess Mahisente worked for many years with the

United Nations Children's Fund UNICEF ( ), originally the United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund, officially United Nations Children's Fund since 1953, is an agency of the United Nations responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to childre ...

(UNICEF) before her retirement. The princess currently lives in the suburbs of

Washington D.C. Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States. The city is on the Potomac River, across from Virginia, and shares land borders with ...

She is the last surviving daughter-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie.

Honours

National

* - Grand Cordon of the

Order of the Queen of Sheba The Order of the Queen of Sheba was originally instituted as a ladies' order in 1922 in the Ethiopian Empire The Ethiopian Empire, historically known as Abyssinia or simply Ethiopia, was a sovereign state that encompassed the present-day ...

. * - Jubilee Medal (1966).

Foreign honours

* - Member of the

Royal Order of the Seraphim The Royal Order of the Seraphim (; '' Seraphim'' being a category of angels) is the highest order of chivalry of the Kingdom of Sweden. It was created by King Frederick I on 23 February 1748, together with the Order of the Sword and the Ord ...

(Kingdom of Sweden, 19 December 1959).Per Nordenvall, ''Kungliga Serafimerorden 1748-1998'' (1998). See the list of knights

References

Living people Mahisente Habte Mariam Mahisente Hapte Mariam 1937 births Princesses by marriage Exiled royalty {{Ethiopia-royal-stub