Black Woman becomes princess after marrying Ethiopian prince she met at a DC nightclub
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Virtuous_Brotha
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She's the most ethiopian looking AA i ever seen 
Edit: Guyanese
Edit: Guyanese
Fairytales are not known for beginning in a Washington DC nightclub, but for one American woman it was where she met the Ethiopian prince who would go on to become her husband.
Ariana Austin, now 33, was on a night out with a friend when they were approached by Joel Makonnen in the Pearl nightclub.
“I said: ‘You guys look like an ad for Bombay Sapphire',” he told The New York Times about their first encounter.
“Not even five minutes later I said: 'You're going to be my girlfriend'.”
What he didn't reveal that night 12-years ago, was that plain old Joel was actually Prince Joel, the great-grandson of Haile Selassie I, Ethiopia's last emperor.
But after the couple started dating seriously, Mr Makonnen, who works as a lawyer, eventually revealed his royal heritage
Born in Rome, his parents Prince David Makonnen and Princess Adey Imru Makonnen, had been forced to live in exile after a communist coup in his homeland.
His father had escaped the bloodshed in his homeland because he was studying abroad at the time. The family subsequently settled in Switzerland.
Mr Makonnen is related to Haile Selassie I through the emperor’s second son Prince Makonnen.
Haile Selassie was the 225th and last in the line of King of the Kings of Ethiopia, ruling the east African country for 40 years until he was overthrown in 1974.
He died the following year of “circulatory failure” – though many believe he had been murdered days earlier.
Art's curator, Ms Austin told the newspaper it is an “unbeatable heritage and history” that “combines sheer black power and ancient Christian tradition”.
The royal family traces its roots back to the Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
The pair married in a lavish Ethiopian Orthodox Christian wedding with 13 priests, two crowns and a pair of capes on 9 September.
Woman becomes princess after marrying prince she met in nightclub
Get you a foreign Sis
Wish this is what actress Meghan Markle did instead of getting with Prince Harry.
Elle Driver
Veteran
Nah they were AA from up Nawf, the only one that ain’t cheat was from the Souf.Those were 2nd and 3rd generations in disguise don't put that on us
QueenSheba
All Star
Get you a AA man we don't cheat
Those were 2nd and 3rd generations in disguise don't put that on us
Excuses.
Nah they were AA up from Nawf, the only one that ain’t cheat was from the Souf.
ok good we don't claim them they honorary Island nikkas at this point
Elle Driver
Veteran
You gonna put them on island nikkas?ok good we don't claim them they honorary Island nikkas at this point
Island nikkas is up front, they trick on you but you gonna be in a harem.
QueenSheba
All Star
CreepyMcCreeperson
Veteran
Cue women and their unrealistic expectations.
This is worse than The Notebook, but I love black love, they're a beautiful couple, and I wish them many years of happiness.
This is worse than The Notebook, but I love black love, they're a beautiful couple, and I wish them many years of happiness.
BrokePhiBroke
Superstar
So I ran to the gram cause you guys calling her a thot and expecting to see thot pics
looks like breh knew what he is about. These are the type of women you wife up, not them thots
nikkas miserable.
Trajan
Veteran
When I tell you the boy has own money...he has his own money!
Yo Mama
...the sweeter the juice.
This is beautiful.
That and all monarchies were rightfully overthrown. And all.that remain should also be overthrown.
That and all monarchies were rightfully overthrown. And all.that remain should also be overthrown.
Stop harrassing me
Never change.
My memory a lil foggy....help me remember what you've said about your Island men in the past?
why it gotta be nikkas plural?
