Ariana Austin marries Joel Makonnen at lavish Orthodox Christian wedding with 13 priests
Tom Embury-Dennis
Independent
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
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