Officials at Buckingham Palace have declined a request to release the remains of an Ethiopian prince who was buried at Windsor Castle in the 19th century, BBC News initially reported.
Prince Alemayehu was born in 1861 to Tewodros II, Emperor of Abyssinia (now Ethiopia), and arrived in the UK as an orphan at the age of seven after he was taken by British soldiers following the battle of Maqdala.
As Insider previously reported, Alemayehu’s father died by suicide in order to evade imprisonment after the battle, and his mother died during the journey to Britain.
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Queen Victoria took an interest in the young prince and arranged his education. Alemayehu lived in Britain for the remainder of his young life, as he died from pleurisy at the age of 18. He was buried at St George’s Chapel in the grounds of Windsor Castle, a 900-year-old royal residence in England that’s also the largest occupied castle in the world.
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