Prince Alemayehu ,an African boy buried among the royals in England.
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He was the son of Emperor Tewodros II of Ethiopia who committed suicide after being defeated by the British in 1868.
After his father's death his mother tried to escape with him to Britain,unfortunately she also died along the way leaving prince Alemayehu a total orphan at the age of 7.
So the young and now orphaned prince was put on board a Royal Naval ship and sent to Britain along with other artefacts stolen from Ethiopia.
In England he lived under the care of queen victoria ,but still he was never happy with the life in England .His continual pleas to be returned to his homeland Ethiopia were always ignored.
Prince Alemayehu died in 1879 at the age of 18 after contracting Pleurisy and was buried at windsor castle ,far a way from his continent Africa where he longed to go back.
In Eulogising him Queen Victoria mentioned him in her diary, saying ,what a good and kind boy he had been and how sad it was that he should die so far from his family. She also mentioned how very unhappy the prince had been, and how conscious he was of people staring at him because of his colour.
There is an ongoing campaign to have prince Alemayehu's remains exhumed and be repatriated back to his homeland Ethiopia.