Editing Haile Selassie (section)

=== Family ===

{{Further|Crown Council of Ethiopia}}[[File:Ethiopian_Royal_Family.jpg|thumb|225x225px|His son [[Amha Selassie|Prince Asfaw Wossen]] and other members of the Royal Family of Ethiopia]]

Selassie, being the head of the Royal Family, legally had precedent over all matters within his household. He contrasted with the [[Solomonic dynasty]] and gave more political powers, dukedoms, and government offices to members of his immediate family, including his grandson [[Iskinder Desta|Rear Admiral Iskinder Desta]]. An individual source according to Paulos Milkias, a professor at Montreal, Canada, claimed that Desta threatened his grandfather with death at gunpoint unless he changed the successional line (although this was never definitively confirmed). Selassie only wanted to give him an apolitical position as a commissioned officer in the Ethiopian military, and Iskinder was made deputy commander of the [[Imperial Ethiopian Navy]] in 1958.<ref name="Paulos">{{cite book|last1=Milkias|first1=Paulos|title=Haile Selassie, Western Education, and Political Revolution in Ethiopia|date=2006|publisher=Cambria Press|isbn=1-934043-20-6}}</ref><ref name="HD">{{cite book|last1=Shinn|first1=David H.|title=Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia|last2=Ofcansky|first2=Thomas P.|date=2004|publisher=Scarecrow Press|isbn=0-8108-4910-0|chapter=Iskander Desta (1934–1974)}}</ref>

In 1963, [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]] is said to have helped Haile Selassie to put his grandson in the elite [[Gordonstoun|Gordonstoun school]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Marc|first=Horne|date=30 December 2023|title=Prince Philip 'pulled strings' to get Haile Selassie's grandson into Gordonstoun|url=https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/prince-philip-pulled-strings-to-get-haile-selassies-grandson-into-gordonstoun-3vnp0d37x|work=[[The Sunday Times]]}}</ref> Selassie was able to put his other grandchildren into top schools throughout the U.S. and Europe, such as [[Columbia University]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=1 October 1963|title=Return Visit, The Visit of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I to the United States, 1 October 1963|url=https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/archives/usg-01-s|website=[[National Archives and Records Administration]]}}</ref>