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Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie baptismal name Fikirte Mariam ( 12 January 1912 -- 6 April 2003 ) of Ethiopia was the eldest child of Emperor Haile Selassie and Empress Menen Asfaw . Haile Selassie I (" qädamawi haylä sllasé ") born Tafari Makonnen Woldemikael , was Ethiopia ' s regent from 1916 to 1930 and Emperor from 1930 to 1974 . He also served as Chairperson of the Organisation of African Unity from 25 May 1963 to 17 July 1964 and 5 November 1966 to 11 September 1967 . He was a member of the ___MASK85___ . The Ethiopian Empire , also known as Abyssinia ( derived from the Arabic " al - Habash "), was a kingdom that spanned a geographical area covered by the northern half of the current state of Ethiopia . It existed from approximately 1137 ( beginning of ___MASK62___ ) until 1974 , when the ___MASK85___ was overthrown in a "". The ___MASK85___ , also known as the House of Solomon , is the former ruling Imperial House of the Ethiopian Empire . Its members claim patrilineal descent from King Solomon of Israel and the Queen of Sheba . Tradition asserts that the Queen gave birth to Menelik I after her biblically described visit to Solomon in Jerusalem . Empress Menen Asfaw ( Baptismal name " Walatta Giyorgis ") ( 25 Magabit 1883 Ethiopian Calendar , 3 April 1891 Gregorian Calendar  15 February 1962 ) was the Empress consort of the Ethiopian Empire . She was the wife of Emperor Haile Selassie .