SPOTLIGHT EVENT: The Exiled Royal — register to attend our virtual panel here
- Most of us can't fathom what it's like to be a royal living in exile.
- At Insider's live event, join Ethiopian royal Yeshi Kassa as she shares her experiences.
Life as a royal is something most of us can only daydream about.
There are the cameras, the jewels, the ribbon-cutting ceremonies — it's a role that exudes both luxury and responsibility.
Most people, however, don't consider the unique experience of being a royal in exile.
Yeshi Kassa knows it well.
Kassa is the great-granddaughter of Ethiopia's last emperor, Haile Selassie, who was deposed by a revolution in 1974 and killed in 1975. Kassa was living at her boarding school in the UK at the time and became exiled from her home country. Meanwhile, many of her family members were killed or imprisoned in Ethiopia.
On Wednesday, July 26, at 12 p.m. ET, join Kassa and "Grandpa Was an Emperor" director Constance Marks in a live panel discussion with Insider's senior lifestyle reporter, Mikhaila Friel, in part two of Insider's royal representation conversations.
They will discuss the new documentary about Salassie's legacy, as well as Kassa's experience living as a royal in exile. It's a conversation that will educate and inspire royal watchers and history buffs alike.
We hope to see you there. Save the date and add this live Spotlight event to your calendar:
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Speakers include
- Yeshi Kassa, member of the Ethiopian royal family
- Constance Marks, director of "Grandpa Was an Emperor"
- Moderator: Mikhaila Friel, senior lifestyle reporter at Insider
Read more about Yeshi Kassa and Constance Marks here:
- Yeshi Kassa, the great-granddaughter of Ethiopia's last emperor, said the late Queen Elizabeth privately supported her new documentary about the horrors her family faced in prison and exile
- Yeshi Kassa, the great-granddaughter of Ethiopia's last emperor, says nobody at her UK boarding school knew she was a royal until the revolution