"It's good to see that Ned will get the funeral he finally deserved in the first place, " says Anthony Griffiths, the outlaw's great-grandnephew.

BBC: Ned Kelly: The outlaw who divides a nation

The elegant 81-room Shangri-La Hotel opened in 2010 among the embassies and mansions in the Trocadero district, after a four-year revamp of a building that was once the residence of Roland Bonaparte, grandnephew of Napoleon.

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