Dorowott you are really doro or chicken. The man left his wife for the princess is not new. All the other kings did. They had children from diferent women outside marriage(Haile Selassie, Menelik, yohannese)

Please fight against the common enemy of your country if you have one. Leave the Princess in peace.

Thank you.

There she caught the eye, in 1837, of the eccentric German prince, Hermann von Pückler-Muskau, who, according to his biographer, was “moved by her charm and the pleasantness of her appearance, and purchased her.He immediately fell in love with her.

LIST OF ETHIOPIAN KINGS
by
H.I.H. Tafari Makonnen, G.C.B.. G.C.M.G., L.L.D.
June 19, 1922

Published in:
In The Country of The Blue Nile
by C.F. Rey, F.R.G.S.,
Commander of the Order of the Star of Ethiopia
Negro University Press, New York

Translation of Covering Letter

“May this reach my honourable friend Mr. Rey. Greetings to you.

As you ask me to send you the names of the Ethiopian Kings and the history of the Ethiopian Kings of Kings (Emperors), herewith I have taken a copy and send it to you.

After the date of these, if you want more, I will write to you. I am very glad that you have asked me about the history of Abyssinia. I hope that your thoughts should be successful in future.”

Written on the 11th day of Sane, 1914 at the town of Addis Ababa

Seal of Ras Tafari

See the list at RastaWire.com.

What where you doing in 4th grade tarik calss:-) You even forgot Empress Zewditu, Lij Eyau, you might as well add Aba Jifar to the list because unlike others (Like Ayantu) for example, Google is not my Ethiopian history source, its my grandmother, who is most definitely pro Haile Selassie. So is there a king called Aba Jifar? I asked my Grandmother? Negusu haile selassie nachew. Aba Jifar ye Jimma Gezi neber. “Haile Selassie was the king. Aba Jifar was the ruler of Jimma.” So is she a princess? Esun Egziabher new Yemiwqew. “Only God knows that.”

There you go my grandmother confirms that Aba Jifar was the ruler of Jimma.

First let me mention that Ethiopia is for all of us, not only for loyal Ethiopia? What does that mean? Really? And who is rewriting history? If you refute the legendary King Aba Jiffar, then present your proof instead of poor sound bites. History is made of real people. And Aba Jiffar was a one such real person. Go search for the 5 May 1932, the official newspaper Berhanena Selam editorial that I cited earlier “kingdom was in danger because her king, Abba Jifar, was old and ill and his grandson and heir longer properly obeyed the central government and was using the kingdom’s revenues to build up an army.” “Seven days later, on 12 May 400 soldiers and a team of administrators descended upon Jimma and brought the kingdom to an end.[10] During the reorganization of the provinces in 1942, the last administrative traces of the kingdom vanished into Kaffa Province.”

Is this wrong? It is not like I am an expert but I goggled it because I am from Jimma and my parents also have the same blood by marriage. I don’t know her personally and I have never met her because there are many of us, I don’t know if this story is true or not, but I can say for sure that she may not be very rich, but she is well looked after. So stop hating Mr or Mrs “loyal Ethiopia”. Be nice.

ZemZem, how do you know that the post on People Magazine was not a plant by the Count and the the Princess themselves? That’s a possibility that one can’t discount in this internet driven news age. The New York Daily News is read by 2.5 million people every day. Go figure…if the Count wants to refute the story, I think he will. But I love the fairytale ending worthy of Hollywood movie though. It turns out the mistress is an African Princess. The ending will be even sweeter if the Wife Countess LuAnn de Lesseps also gets the best things in life (the great American way) and gets book deals, tv shows, etc. Then everybody is happy. And most importantly, the father-children relationship must continue. The bond of the family must continue even if the parents are separated. It is very important for the children. That’s just my opinion. Thanks.

Minnesota

You guys rushed to publish this. You have been duped just like all the other media. On April 7, Us magazine run an article about this and a reader by the name “Pippa” wrote the first account saying the following.

“7:01 PM Pippa Says:

Here’s a bit of interesting info: the Count’s Ethiopian lady just so happens to be none other than Princess Kemeria Abajobir Abajifar, the granddaughter of King Abajobir Abajifar, the last King of Jimma, Ethiopia. Seems the Count traded up! His new play thing is not only much younger, more exotic and lovelier than LuAnn, but happens to be bona fide royalty in her own right.

I pity the children, Victoria and Noel, very much.”

Here is the URL http://www.usmagazine.com/news/new-york-housewives-countess-luann-split-has-been-really-difficult-200974

The Ethiopian website ethioplanet posted on its website a comment by anonymous user on Us magazine as a news and other media took that for a real source and run with the story.

Ethioplanet run the story on April 9, two days after the comment was posted on Us magazine. Anyone who took the time to google would have found this out, but in a rush to ‘report’, juicy story they posted unsubstantiated story.

All we know is this, the woman is Ethiopian and last we heard she was in Geneva. Apart from that we have no other information. Let’s leave it at that.

You seem to be going around to every news site relentlessly trying to refute the irrefutable. Get in contact with the Count himself if you don’t believe it. If on the other hand the issue is accepting the fact that there was in fact such a kingdom in Jimmaa, or if there really was a King named Aba Jifar, then do your own research and you will surely find the proof. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abba_Jifar_II

You can choose to believe whatever you want about Ethiopian history, just stop going around spewing nonsense!

The Kingdom of Jimma was one of the kingdoms in the Gibe region of Ethiopia that emerged in the 19th century. It shared its western border with Limmu-Ennarea, its eastern border with the Sidamo kingdom of Janjero, and was separated from the Kingdom of Kaffa to the south by the Gojeb River. Jimma was considered the most powerful, militarily, of the Gibe kingdoms.

-Although the king can be described as a despot, the citizens of Jimma were otherwise considered his equals: all could own property, there was no nobility, and the other citizens addressed him as an equal and not as a superior.

-In Jimma, Maria Theresa Thalers (MT) and salt blocks called amoleh were used as currency until the reign of Emperor Menelik II.

-Coffee (Coffea arabica) became a major cash crop in Jimma only in the reign of King Abba Jifar II. Another source of income was the extraction of oil from Civets, which was used to make perfume.[2]

-It was during the reign of Abba Jifar I that the kingdom of Jimma coalesced, and after this time Jimma was frequently referred to as Jimma Abba Jifar. King Abba Jifar also converted to Islam, and began the long process of also converting his entire kingdom to that religion.[6]

- It was shortly after his son Abba Jifar II assumed the throne that the power of the neguses of Shewa began to reach into the Gibe region for the first time in centuries. As Lewis notes, “Borrelli, Franzoj and other travellers accorded him little hope of retaining his kingdom for long.”[8] However, heeding the wise advice of his mother Gumiti, he submitted to Menelik II, and agreed to pay tribute to the negus, and counseled his neighboring kings to do the same.

-However, none followed his example, and King Abba Jifar instead found himself enthusiasticly aiding his Shewan master conquer his neighbors: Kullo in 1889, Walamo in 1894, and Kaffa in 1897. In 1928, the tribute of Jimma amounted to MT 87,000 and an additional MT 15,000 for the army.[9]

-Following the death of Abba Jifar II, Emperor Haile Selassie seized the opportunity to finally annex Jimma. As Harold Marcus observes, the kingdom’s “autonomy had been undermined by the declining world economy, the deteriorating health of its ruler, the road that slowly advanced from Addis Abeba, the advent of air power, and the transcendent needs of modern, centralized power.”[10] On 5 May 1932, the official newspaper Berhanena Selam editorialized that the kingdom was in danger because her king, Abba Jifar, was old and ill and his grandson and heir longer properly obeyed the central government and was using the kingdom’s revenues to build up an army. Seven days later, on 12 May 400 soldiers and a team of administrators descended upon Jimma and brought the kingdom to an end.[10] During the reorganization of the provinces in 1942, the last administrative traces of the kingdom vanished into Kaffa Province.

It is shame they cheated, but happy for them now they are finally open and in love!! I wish them all the best!

Love and love