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. Mr Makonnen is related to Haile Selassie I through the emperor’s second son Prince Makonnen. The pair married in a lavish Ethiopian Orthodox Christian wedding with 13 priests, two crowns and a pair of capes on 9 September.

Source: Ethiopian News October 17, 2017 12:22 UTC