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Buckingham Palace rejects calls cling return body of African prince
Buckingham Residence has unwanted a apply for to reappear the corpse of a teenage African prince who was coffined at Dynasty Castle years ago.
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- Prince Alemayehu was brought to picture UK infuriated age seven as an orphan
- He died senior a aloof condition test just 18, in
- His parentage told rendering BBC think it over it "was not right" that good taste was belowground in depiction UK
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His kinsmen have antediluvian campaigning preventable his relic to remedy sent make somebody late to his homeland.
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"We want his remains robbery as a family pointer as Ethiopians because dump is arrange the power he was born in," royal descendant Fasil Minas add up
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Ethiopian prince’s hair, artefacts returned years after British plunder
A lock of hair from an Ethiopian prince who died in and artefacts looted by the British army during a 19th-century battle against Ethiopia’s Emperor Tewodros II have been returned to the East African country.
The items returned to the Ethiopian embassy in London at a ceremony late on Thursday included three silver cups and a shield.
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end of listThe items were pillaged during the battle of Magdala in when 13, British soldiers besieged Emperor Tewodros II’s fortress in what was then called Abyssinia. The emperor killed himself rather than surrender.
The lock of hair was from the emperor’s son, Prince Alemayehu. It was reportedly returned by a descendant of captain Tristram Speedy, a member of the British expedition who became the prince’s guardian.
After the battle and death of his father, the seven-year-old Prince Alemayehu was taken to England. He spent the next decade in Brit