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| | Menen Asfaw - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | Empress Menen and Emperor Haile Selassie were the parents of six children, Princess Tenagnework, Prince Asfaw Wossen (Emperor-in-Exile Amha Selassie I), Princess Tsehai,, Prince Makonnen Duke of Harrar, and. |
 | | When the Empress was exiled from Ethiopia during the Italian occupation from 1936 to 1941, she made a pledge to the Virgin Mary at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, promising to give her crown to the church if Ethiopia were liberated from occupation. |
 | | Following the return of Emperor Haile Selassie and his family in 1941, a replica of the crown was made for future Empresses, but the crown with which Empress Menen was crowned at her husband's side in 1931 was sent to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. |
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