Ethiopia wants its prince back

From: New African | Date: August 1, 2007| Author: Warden, Gail | Copyright information

Ethiopia's year-long Third Millennium celebrations kick off on 12 September, but it wants Britain to, first, return the remains of its prince, Alemayehu, who was taken away in 1868 when a British expedition looted Emperor Tewodros' fortress town, Magdala. "It is too sad," wrote Queen Victoria of Alemayehu. "All alone in a strange country, without a single person or relative belonging to him ... His was no happy life." Gail Warden reports.

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