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There's a body buried in the grounds of Windsor Castle whose real home is thousands of miles away.
Since 2007, there have been calls for Prince Alamayu’s remains to be returned to Ethiopia.
But how exactly did this young royal end up alone in England, and buried at Windsor Castle? To answer that we have to go back to 1868 to hear the message the British wanted to send that still reverberates to this day.
Credits:
- Presenter: Marc Fennell
- ABC RN Producer: Zoe Ferguson
- ABC RN Executive Producer: Amruta Slee
- CBC Consulting Producers: Leah-Simone Bowen and Eunice Kim
- CBC Senior Producer: Tina Verma
- CBC Executive Producers: Cesil Fernandes and Chris Oke
- Sound Engineer: Martin Peralta
Guests:
- Lemn Sissay OBE - Poet and playwright
- Eyob Derillo - PhD student, SOAS University of London
- Maaza Mengiste - novelist, essayist, and photographer
- Andrew Heavens - Author, The Prince and The Plunder
- Catlin Langford - Photography curator and researcher, formerly at the Royal Collection Trust and Victoria and Albert Museum
This podcast is a co-production of ABC Australia and CBC Podcasts
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