In Prince Imperial Memorial, how is the Erection discussed?
The death of the Prince Imperial caused international outrage as Queen Victoria only authorised him to go providing the army kept him out of danger. Queen Victoria ordered the erection of a memorial on the spot where he died, paying for it personally. The cross was enscribed "'This cross is erected by Queen Victoria, in affectionate remembrance of Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph Prince Imperial, to mark the spot where, while assisting in a reconnaissance with the British troops, on the 1st June 1879, he was attacked by a party of Zulus, and fell with his face to the foe." When the memorial was finished, Zulu warriors saluted it with British Army soldiers.On the first anniversary of his death, his mother Empress Eugénie visited the site of her son's death. She kept a vigil all night and noticed she was being watched by Zulus who she believed to have been the ones who had killed her son.
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