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About Sophia Desta
- Princess Sophia Desta is the youngest daughter of Ras Desta Damtew and Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie, and granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia.
- She is also the widow of Captain Dereje Haile Mariam, graduate of The Royal Sandhurst Academy in the U.K.
- 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 born in 1937 and he was killed at Addis Ababa, at the Genuete Luel Palace while defending the Emperor against a palace coup d'etat 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 on February 1961, Addis Ababa).
- 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.Princess Sophia Desta was imprisoned, mistreated and humiliated with other princesses of the Imperial Family from 1974 to 1988.
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