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Zsa Zsa Gabor at her home in Bel Air 1990
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Hollywood actress Zsa Zsa Gabor, who comes from Budapest, is given a grave of honor in her hometown.
More than four years after her death, the urn with the diva's ashes will be buried this Tuesday in an artist's parcel in the Kerepescher Friedhof.
This was confirmed by the German Prince Frédéric von Anhalt, Gabor's last husband, to the Budapest daily »Blikk«.
"Zsa Zsa is finally returning home," said von Anhalt accordingly.
It was probably always Zsa Zsa Gabor's concern, like father Vilmos once, to be buried in her native Hungary.
The official Hungarian authorities had gratefully received Gabor's last wish to be buried in the homeland.
Important personalities from Hungarian history are buried in the Kerepescher cemetery.
Gabor receives a grave of honor in a row of parcels where great artists rest.
Von Anhalt took the urn with her ashes home after Gabor's death.
"I brought her with me," he told the Blikk reporters.
As the Munich "Abendzeitung" reported, Frederic von Anhalt flew with Gabor's ashes from Los Angeles via Great Britain and Germany to Hungary.
He did not register that.
The urn was flown first class with him.
The Hungarian Hollywood Council, a private association for the maintenance of the memory of the Hungarian filmmakers who emigrated to the USA, announced the urn burial on Saturday.
The actress died on December 18, 2016 at the age of 99.
After her youth in Switzerland and her first broken marriage to a Turkish diplomat, she followed her sister Eva to Hollywood in 1941.
Her last of a total of nine husbands was the adopted German Prince Frédéric von Anhalt.
"I ask the mourners not to come in black clothes," said the widower in the newspaper interview.
"Let's celebrate her as she was." Anyone who wants to can place their favorite flowers - yellow and pink roses - on the grave.
Frederic von Anhalt said of the “AZ”: “It will not be a funeral service, but a wonderful celebration of life.
That is how Zsa Zsa wanted it.
During my lifetime she said to me: ›People who cry at the grave are fake.
They all just want to inherit.
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