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The vandalism took place a day after the monarch was heckled by an Australian lawmaker
The statue of Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London, had graffiti sprayed on it over two successive days, including the phrase "Churchill was a racist", [3] [4] [5] alluding to his controversial racial views. [6] The memorial to Queen Victoria in Leeds was also vandalised. [7]
Queen Victoria Statue Victoria Garden (now in Sanskar Kendra), Ahmedabad, India: 1910: Ganpatrao Kashinath Mhatre Statue on pedestal with stone canopy: Carrara marble, cold-blue Indian marble: 7 feet Statue moved to museum, pedestal canopy in garden [43] [44] [45] More images: Statue of Queen Victoria Queen's Park, Bangalore: 1906: Thomas Brock ...
After the war, the statue of Queen Victoria was brought back to Hong Kong, but the other statues were never found. In 1952, the late Queen Victoria's statue was restored and placed in Victoria Park. In 1996, shortly before Hong Kong's handover to China, artist Pun Sing-lui tipped red paint over the statue and smashed its nose with a hammer. [2]
Statues of American slave owners such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Ulysses S. Grant, and Francis Scott Key were also vandalised or removed. [5] [6] [7] According to the Huffington Post, by October 2020 over a hundred Confederate symbols had been "removed, relocated or renamed", based on data from the Southern Poverty Law Center. [8]
After a period of storage at Redcliffe Wharf during which other locations were considered, and following a campaign for its return, [8] the statue of Queen Victoria was returned to the apex on the Green in 1953. Part of the replica High Cross, vandalised in storage, is now preserved in Berkeley Square.
The Victoria Memorial is a monument to Queen Victoria, located at the end of The Mall in London by the sculptor Sir Thomas Brock.Designed in 1901, it was unveiled on 16 May 1911, though it was not completed until 1924.
Statue of Lord Nelson, Birmingham; Statue of Mahatma Gandhi, Parliament Square; Statue of Margaret Thatcher (Grantham) Statue of Margaret Thatcher (London Guildhall) Statue of Queen Anne, Queen Anne's Gate; Statue of Queen Victoria, Bristol; Statue of Robert Milligan; Statue of Robert Peel, Parliament Square; Statue of Winston Churchill ...