Grave problem at ‘celebrity’ cemetery

Visitors to Highgate Cemetery, a Victorian graveyard where Karl Marx, George Michael and George Eliot are buried, in London in these file photos. Graves can run upwards of £25,000, and the cemetery is trying to add more space. — ©2024 The New York Times Company

IN death, as in life, it is expensive to have famous people as your neighbours.

There is hardly any space left at Highgate Cemetery, a Victorian graveyard in north London where Karl Marx, George Michael and George Eliot are buried, along with 170,000 other Londoners.