FATE OF FRENCH PRINCE
ATTACK UPON ENGLAND LEFT FOR ZULUS TO KILL (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) PARIS, Sunday. It is expected that there will be a diplomatic sequel to the production of M. Maurice Rostand’s new play, “Napoleon the Fourth.” It is suggested in the play that the son of the Emperor Napoleon 111., the Prince Imperial, who was brought up in England and killed while he was serving with the British Army in the campaign against the Zulus in 1879, was really assassinated by the English, and that Queen Victoria was privy to the conspiracy to have him put away. •The author asserts that when the Prince’s party was ambushed his fellow officers mounted their norses and rode off, and left him to his fate. Critics strongly condemn the intolerable audacity of these accusations against an allied nation.
The Prince Imperial, son of the Eniperor Napoleon 111. and the Empress Eugene, after the revolution and exile of his parents in 1870, was educated in England, and was at Woolwich Military Academy from 1872 to 1875. He took part in the British expedition against the Zulus in 1579. He, with his escort, Captain Carey, was ambushed by Zulus. Captain Carey escaped but the Prince was killed.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 462, 18 September 1928, Page 9
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