Tsehaiwork Darge

Tsehaiwork Darge was the daughter of Ras Darge Sahle Selassie, Prince of Selale, and granddaughter of Sahle Selassie, King of Shewa from 1813 to 1847.

Tsehaiwork was favoured by her first cousin Emperor Menelik II and his wife Taytu Betul.

She never formally married, but instead administered her vast land holdings by herself and allegedly had a male "favourite." She was known as a formidable and headstrong woman who was greatly feared as a taskmaster by the domestic staff of her father's household and of the Imperial Palace.