Exclusive: Heir to Ethiopian Throne Talks Geopolitics and Judeo-Christian Values With The American Spectator
“Christian heritage is the fiber that really holds the bridge between America and Ethiopia,” His Royal Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie said in a wide-ranging interview
by Shiv Parihar
August 14, 2025, 10:07 PM
In the 4th century A.D., Ethiopia became the world’s second Christian nation, preceded only by Armenia. Though its historicity is questionable, the 14th-century Kebra Nagast tied Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie’s family to the Old Testament’s Queen of Sheba, who is recorded as having borne a son by Solomon in the Book of Kings. In the centuries since, Ermias’ ancestors led Ethiopia as the House of Solomon.
The Ethiopian Empire was the only nation in Africa to maintain its complete independence during the age of empires. From 1916 to 1974, Ermias’s grandfather, Haile Selassie, was the most powerful man in the nation, ruling as emperor from 1930 onwards. However, things came crashing down with a bloodstained communist coup in 1974.
The ensuing military government unleashed the worst of Marxist terror on the nation as it murdered the emperor and ravaged Ethiopia’s Orthodox Church. Prince Ermias, already heir due to the untimely death of his father, was only 14 and spared a tragic fate through the luck of studying abroad in Europe at the time.
The nation’s destiny has remained uncertain ever since, even with the fall of communism. Since 1975, Ermias has been the titular head of the Solomonic Dynasty and president of the now-United States-based Crown Council of Ethiopia. As his nation has grown from 24 million in the tragic days of the 1970s to 130 million today, the Crown Council has continued to advocate for the protection of the principles that once made Ethiopia a shining light within a troubled continent…
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