Thieves have tried to steal the ashes of Sigmund Freud and his wife.<\/p>\n
They broke an ancient Greek urn that contained the couple\u2019s remains after breaking into a cemetery in Golders Green, north London.<\/p>\n
The \u2018irreplaceable\u2019 urn, which was a gift to the founding father of psychoanalysis from Princess Marie Bonaparte, the great-grandniece of Napoleon, was \u2018severely damaged\u2019. The would-be thieves left empty-handed.<\/p>\n
The urn was placed in the crematorium following Freud\u2019s death in Hampstead in September 1939.<\/p>\n
The ashes of his wife, Martha, were added to the urn when she died in 1951, aged 90.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the crematorium said the urn, which was ‘severely damaged’, has since been moved to a secure location and that security was now under review.<\/p>\n
The crematorium in Hoop Lane has been the scene for the funerals of many British celebrities, including authors Bram Stoker, Enid Blyton and more recently Amy Winehouse and Peter Sellers.<\/p>\n
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