The story of how Alameyu came to be buried at Windsor Castle is a wild, sad saga that Andrew Heavens recounts in his new book The Prince and the Plunder. His father Teodros fell out with the British in the mid-19th century and held several dozen Europeans captive at his highland citadel, Magdilla. And then in 1868, an Anglo-Indian military force, complete with elephants and artillery, freed the prisoners and killed hundreds of the king's men. Now the king shot himself as his fortress fell. When they left, they also took away his son, Alameyu. He ended up dying of pneumonia at just 18 and at the queen