ROYAL STATUES
SPECIAL PROTECTION PROVIDED. An interesting little list has been issued of London statues on behalf of which it has been thought proper to go to the expense of special protection. The object in view has been to protect statues which are valuable as works of art rather than for the merit of the originals, so that James II gets protection denied to more popular monarchs, and ' even that most ardent of modern Cromwellians who looks after the interests of Oliver in the House of Commons today will not, one feels sure, have grudged the protective covering given to CLarles I. Whether that very arbitrary monarch James II would have been gratified by the decision to remove his effigy for safety’s sake may be doubted, though the statue has had its vicissitudes (like that of James's father) in the past. As it happens, wc have some royal authority on the subject of the removal of such statues. When in 1897 it was found that the statue of Queen Anne in front of St. Paid's was inconveniently placed for the plan of bringing Queen Victoria's carriage to the foot of the steps, someone propounded the “obvious" plan of removing Queen Anne altogether until after the event. Fortunately. as it turned out. it. was thought well to mention the matter to Queen Victoria first and she dealt with it very, summarily. "Move Queen Anno?" site cried, "Certainly not! They may be I wanting to move me one of these; days!”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1941, Page 6
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249ROYAL STATUES Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1941, Page 6
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