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Royal expats explain what their lives are really like in America
simpatico, sweet and friendly - not bitchy or complicated,” he says.Princess Gelila Selassie’s decision to come to America was tied to the political upheaval in 1975 in Ethiopia when Emperor Heile Selassie was overthrown in a Marxist coup (and later killed) She and her former husband, Prince Ermias Sahle Selassie (grandson of Haile Selassie) and their twin boys, Princes Sahle Selasse and Fiseha Tsion (Christian and Rufael) settled in Washington D.C. Sent to college in Philadelphia at 18, she was introduced to her future husband through her family (her father was on the Supreme Court of Ethiopia).
