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...when she was 15 and the Italians came with bombs and gas, Tsahai forgot tradition and went to work in the first field ambulance unit of her father's army, binding the wounds of her father's soldiers. Without introductions, but with her father's dignity, she talked to her patients. She posed for photographers. She made a speech to the pink-skinned war correspondents. Earnestly she told them: "We will fight to the last breath and to the last inch; but, if we fail, civilization will be destroyed." Next year, with her parents, vanguard...
Upholstered in Western clothes, Tsahai and her mother went out sometimes to tea, chatted politely, accepted as polite the thin-lipped smiles of Bath. Tsahai learned to accept her isolation with the dignity her father so frequently recommended. She enrolled in a London hospital for a nurse's training course, earned a diploma and was ready, when her father regained his kingdom, to return with...
...year-old Tsahai no year was so free, so filled with hope as this one. Back with her parents in Ethiopia, she worked to teach her father's people to avoid filth and disease. She could appear among the tribal chiefs under the yellow umbrellas, talk to them of sanitation and of germs, devising Amharic words to fit her needs. She married Colonel Abiy Abbaba of her father's victorious army...
They had need of her, she heard, in the village of Lekamti. Traveling with few formalities, Princess Tsahai, daughter of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, daughter of the Lion of Judah and the most modern of women in one of the last black kingdoms, went to Lekamti. There among the sick she fell ill, and there last week she died...
Died. Princess Tsahai, 22, younger daughter of Emperor Haile Selassie; at Lekamti, Ethiopia...