Zera Yacob Amha Selassie

Zere Yacobe Selassie ( born August 17, 1953) is the grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie and son of Emperor in exile Amha Selassie I of Ethiopia and a member of the Solomonic dynasty.

After the revolution in 1974, he lived in exile in Britain, where he attended school, and later, for a short time in the United States. He currently lives in Addis Ababa. He is now the head of the former Ethiopian emperor house. However, also raise descendants of the imperial line side of Lidj Iyasu claim to the throne. However, the re-establishment of the Empire in Ethiopia is not on the agenda of the ruling regime since 1991.

Life

He attended Eton College and Cambridge University, where he also graduated. His grandfather appointed him in 1974, after the fatal stroke of his father, the Crown Prince and designated heir to the imperial throne. When the father of Emperor Amha Selassie the title in exile adopted in April 1989, he appointed Zere Yacobe for pretenders.

After the fall of the Ethiopian monarchy Zere Yacobe ended mid-1970s his studies at Cambridge and worked briefly as a banker in the United States. In order to be near his parents, he returned to London. He married and has a daughter, Zera Yacob Lideta, but later separated from his wife. When his father Amha Selassie moved to Virginia in 1989, he accompanied him for a short time, but later returned to England where he lived for some time in Manchester. He has now settled permanently in Ethiopia.

Since his father's death in February 1997 Zere Yacobe is regarded as head of the family.

Charity

Zere Yacobe is the prince of the Imperial Ethiopian Order of Saint Mary of Zion, and gives awards to people who have rendered by their work to help the people of Ethiopia.

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• Heir to the throne
• Prince
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