Posted on 10/15/2017 2:12:27 PM PDT by Rebelbase
Few love stories resemble a fairy tale as much as the courtship and marriage of Ariana Austin and Joel Makonnen. Of course, it helped that the groom is an actual prince and the bride has a prominent lineage of her own.
Mr. Makonnen, known as Prince Yoel, is the 35-year-old great-grandson of Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia. And Ms. Austin, 33, is of African-American and Guyanese descent; her maternal grandfather was a lord mayor of Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.
As the couple noted on their wedding website, their union happened when “Old World aristocracy met New World charm.” The old and new combined on Sept. 9, in a marathon day of events that lasted from 11 a.m. until late in the evening, and took place within two states.
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I have no idea of which you speak.
I guess what I meant is that most of us can trace our lineage back to royalty. Evidently 80% of Europeans are descended from Charlemagne. My daughter in law has the same rare hemophilia that Queen Victoria had. Queen Eliza II is my 8th cousin.
Be racially insensitive at your own risk here
It brings out the puffiest virtue signalers
How dare you and all that
I’ve never had much truck with Ethiopians or Guyanese
They seem in general superior to West Africans culturally
But of course you don’t........
“Evidently 80% of Europeans are descended from Charlemagne.”
Raises hand... wonders when another Charles Martel will arise from that band of cousins and reverse the Muslim tide....
Haile Selassie?
Highly unlikely!
Sorry, old joke.
Best wishes and congrats, lovely couple!
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