Hirut Desta

{{Infobox royalty

|name= Princess Hirut Desta

|image =File:Prinses Ruth Desta, de kleindochter van de keizer van Ehtiopië, verricht op de w, Bestanddeelnr 918-9876.jpg

|title =Princess of Ethiopia

|full name = Immabet Hiruta Mariam

|birth_date={{Birth date|1930|4|20|df=y}}

|birth_place=Ethiopian Empire

|death_date={{Death year and age|2015|1930}}

|death_place= London

|father=Desta Damtew

|mother=Princess Tenagnework

|spouse=General Nega Tegegn

|issue=

|place of burial=

|religion = Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo

|house = House of Solomon

}}

Princess Hirut Desta (also Princess Ruth Desta; 20 April 1930 - 2015)[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1427613/Princess-Tenagneworq.html "Princess Tenagneworq"] (obituary), in The Telegraph, London, 16 April 2003.[https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4OpmO1WnesC&pg=PA350&lpg=PA350 Barbara W. Olson, Gondar, Ethiopia: 1971-1975 Guests in the Ethiopian Highlands and Children of Zemecha], AuthorHouse, 2011, p. 350. was the daughter of Ras Desta Damtew and Princess Tenagnework Haile Selassie, and granddaughter of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia.{{cn|date=June 2020}} She was the widow of General Nega Tegegn, who was governor of the provinces of Begemder and Semien. She was described by Nathaniel T. Kenney as a "trim, most democratic of princesses," who "was not above grabbing a tool from a workman, I suspect, and showing him how to use it."Kenney, "Ethiopian Adventure", National Geographic Magazine, vol. 127 (April 1965), p. 560.

Princess Hirut was educated at the School of St Clare (renamed Bolitho School), Penzance, Cornwall,{{cite book |author1=Michael Sagar-Fenton |title=Penzance in 50 Buildings |date=2017 |publisher=Amberley Publishing |isbn=9781445665863 |page=50}} and at Clarendon School for Girls, Abergele, North Wales.

She was imprisoned by the Derg from 1974 until 1988. Princess Hirut Desta died in London aged 85 in 2015, and her funeral was conducted at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa.