Haile Selassie
 


HAILE SELASSIE
1892 1975
Emperor of Ethiopia
enjoyed visiting the Pool
whilst in exile in Bath
1936 – 1940
 

Haile Selassie was the Emperor of Ethiopia from 1930 – 1974.

His lineage claimed direct descent from King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

Following his country’s invasion by Mussolini’s Italy in 1935, he and the rest of the Imperial family were rescued by HMS Capetown and they settled in Fairfield House, Bath for the duration of the Second World War.

Haile Selassie enjoyed visiting Weston and swimming in the open-air pool (was the Tropicana- now empty).


  He returned home after the war, but was deposed in 1974 and died a prisoner.

Today he is worshipped as God incarnate by the Rastafarian movement which has its origins in 1930’s Jamaica.

Plaque on the Tropicana, Marine Parade. BS23 1BE