Ariana Austin, 33, married 35-year-old Joel Makonnen, a great-grandson of the last emperor of Ethiopia, on September 9 in Maryland
The couple married 12 years after they met on the dance floor of Washington, DC nightclub Pearl
Makonnen picked Austin up by saying she looked like a model in a Bombay Sapphire advertisement
Makonnen, now a lawyer for Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, is related to Emperor Haile Selassie I through his second son, Prince Makonnen
He was born in Rome, where his family lived in exile after a 1974 military coup
The Ethiopian royal family claims descent to the Biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
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