Buckingham Palace refuses to return the body of Ethiopia's Prince Alemayehu who was buried at Windsor Castle 144 years ago
Alemayehu died of a lung condition at just 18, in 1879, and the queen arranged his burial at St George's Chapel in Windsor./ Jabez Hughes/Victoria and Albert Museum
A descendant of Prince Alemayehu – an orphan who was adored and supported financially by Queen Victoria and died at the age of 18 – has demanded that his remains be returned to Ethiopia. "It is very unlikely that it would be possible to exhume the remains without disturbing the resting place of a substantial number of others in the vicinity," the palace said.
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