After death, her husband, President Juan Perón, ordered Evita's body preserved. After Perón lost power, the opposition sent Evita’s body to be buried in Milan, Italy, under another name. In 1971 Perón, living in exile in Spain, took possession of the body and kept it in his home until his return to Argentina in 1973. When he died in 1974, their bodies were displayed side-by-side for a while. Evita Peron was moved to her present location, Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, in 1974.

The queues to see her grave were long, long, long. But I know the trick... like other mad dogs, and Englishmen, I went back in the midday sun and there was just me and a couple of other mad tourists.