The work will be dressed in the robes of the Order of the Garter, and 20 meters behind the structure a smaller statue of Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, will stand.<\/p>\n
He will be represented in his naval uniform and at a similar age.<\/p>\n
Lord Janvrin added: “We thought it was very important that the statue of the Queen, our head of state, was on the ceremonial route in her own right.<\/p>\n
“She will be depicted standing, on her own.<\/p>\n
“But Prince Philip was such an important part – they worked as a team – of the realm that we’ve decided that he should be a few paces behind the Queen, a position he was accustomed to.”<\/p>\n
The Queen’s figure will stand almost 10ft tall (3m) on a 14ft (4.3m) plinth whilst the statue of the duke will be be 7ft 6in (2.3m) tall on a 4ft 9in (1.5m) plinth.<\/p>\n
A bust of a more mature version of the Queen will be created by the artist Karen Newman and displayed in the opposite side of the park.<\/p>\n
The royal family are set to visit maquettes of the statues and a scale model of the wider memorial at the British Museum on Tuesday. <\/p>\n
The memorial is expected to be completed in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The work will be dressed in the robes of the Order of the Garter, and 20 meters behind…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":542518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-542517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}