Alemayehu on a PC screensaver in an office in Canary Wharf, London
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Sightings
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Alemayehu on the wall of London’s Ethiopian Community in Britain centre
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Alemayehu’s portrait is bottom right, underneath his father, in the centre run by the Ethiopian Community in Britain at 2A Lithos Rd, London NW3 6EF. Map Last spotted: December 15, 2024
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Alemayehu’s memorial in Rugby School Chapel
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Alemayehu’s memorial in the chapel of Rugby school, where he studied from September 1874 to 1877. Thanks to the Antigone Journal for translating the Latin: Sacred to the memory of Alemayehu of Abyssinia, only son of Tewodros and Tiruwork, who spent three years at this school, after spending eight years numbered among the boys and…
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Alemayehu on display in the National Portrait Gallery
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In 2023, the National Portrait Gallery in London included two of its carte-de-visite protraits of Alemayehu in a rotating display in its Room 23, a gallery focussed on “Empire and Resistance”. The introductory caption on the left read: “Taken to Britain: Prince Alemayehu of Abyssinia “These photographs testify to the story of a young African…
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Alemayehu in The Golden Beam, Headingley
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Just a few blocks away from Prince Alemayehu’s last home in Headingley, outside the northern English city of Leeds, sits The Golden Beam pub, part of the JD Wetherspoon empire. The chain has a custom of decorating its pubs with pictures of local figures. Someone did some research and put our prince up on the…
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Alemayehu in the V&A’s Maqdala exhibition
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Over 15 months in 2018-2019, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum put on a special exhibition titled Maqdala 1868, dedicated to the artefacts in its collection linked to Britain’s Abyssinian “expedition”. It included a glorious golden crown, a dress and jewellery once worn by Alemayehu’s mother, and this photo of the prince himself, taken weeks after…