Zera Yacob attended
Eton College and graduated from
Exeter College,
Oxford and
Sandhurst. He was named Acting Crown Prince and
heir presumptive to the Imperial throne of Ethiopia in 1974 by his grandfather, Emperor Haile Selassie, following his father's stroke a year earlier. After the fall of the Ethiopian monarchy, Zera Yacob completed his studies at Oxford in the 1970s and worked briefly as a banker in the United States. He then moved to
London and was married to Princess Nunu (née Getaneh), and later divorced. They had one daughter, Princess Lideta Zera Yacob. He was named
heir apparent by his father, who assumed the title of Emperor-in-exile at that time in April 1989 in London. In 1992 he accompanied his father
Amha Selassie to
Virginia, United States, where his father had a medical check-up. However, his father suffered a stroke and Zera Yacob stayed for two years. He then applied for a visa following his father's death in 1997. He had returned to
London,
England, where he had settled in a modest home on the
Isle of Dogs. Yacob has been the Executive Director of the Ethiopian Peace Foundation (EPF) since 2002. ==Honours==