Prince Alemayehu

Dejazmatch Alemayehu Simyen Tewodoros (also referred to as Alamayou; 23 April 1861 – 14 November 1879), was the son of Emperor Tewodros II and Empress Tiruwork Wube of Ethiopia.

In 1878 he joined the officers' training school at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, but he was not happy there and the following year went to Far Headingley, Leeds, West Yorkshire, to stay with his old tutor Cyril Ransome.

The funeral took place on 21 November 1879, in the presence of Cyril Ransome, Chancellor of the Exchequer Stafford Northcote, General Napier, and Captain Speedy.

A brass plaque in the nave of St George's commemorates him and bears the words "I was a stranger and ye took me in", and Alamayehu's body was buried in a brick vault in the catacombs west of the chapel.

[7] As of 2023, Buckingham Palace had denied the request, saying that it would be impossible to remove Alemayehu's remains "without disturbing the resting place of a substantial number of others in the vicinity".

[8] However, in September 2023, a lock of Alemayehu's hair was returned to Ethiopia, along with other artefacts looted from Magdala; a relative, Fasil Minas, expressed hope that this progress could lead to the eventual repatriation of the Prince's body.

Prince Alemayehu, as photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron at the Isle of Wight in 1868