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The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia
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The Prince and the Plunder, is a tale for our times, as we re-examine Britain’s past, pulling down statues of imperial grandees and looking for other figures to commemorate and celebrate.
Paperback
Published Jan. 2025
The Prince and the Plunder: How Britain took one small boy and hundreds of treasures from Ethiopia
by Andrew Heavens
'Extraordinary and thrilling ... This story should be known to every man, woman and child' - Lemn SissayIn
In 1868, British troops charged into the mountain empire of Ethiopia, they stormed the citadel of its monarch Tewodros II, and looted piles of his treasures and sacred manuscripts. They stole his son too, 6-year-old Prince Alamayu, and took the little boy with them to the chilly shores of England.
For the first time, Andrew Heavens shines the light on British history and tells the whole story of Prince Alamayu. From his early days in his father’s fortress on the roof of Africa to his new home across the seas, where he charmed Queen Victoria, chatted with Lord Tennyson, and traveled with his towering red-headed guardian Captain Speedy. The orphan prince was celebrated but stereotyped and never allowed to go home. The book also follows the loot – Ethiopia’s ‘Elgin Marbles’ – and tracks it down to its current hiding places in bank vaults, museum store cupboards, and a boarded-up cavity in Westminster Abbey.
A story of adventure, trauma, and tragedy. The Prince and the Plunder, is not another history book but a tale for our times, as we re-examine Britain’s past, and its imperial and colonial history, pulling down statues of imperial grandees and looking for other figures to commemorate and celebrate in their place.
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