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Photograph taken on 11 February 1917 on the day of the investiture of Tafari Makonnen, the future Emperor Haile Selassie, as regent. On the right, Wilfred Gilbert Thesiger, British Consul-General and Minister Plenipotentiary to Ethiopia (1909-1919) and father of explorer and travel writer Wilfred Thesiger, born in Addis Ababa in 1910.
Français : Photographie prise le 11 février 1917, jour de l'investiture de Tafari Makonnen comme régent d'Éthiopie. À droite, W. G. Thesiger, ministre de Grande-Bretagne en Éthiopie (1909-1919).

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