04-07-2021 08:00 via theguardian.com

Diana, Wollstonecraft, Wilde … why do we keep getting it so wrong with our statues?

The Princess of Wales sculpture is the latest example of our strained relationship with this controversial art formAnother statue, another dance of media and culture. Last week, on what would have been her 60th birthday, Princes William and Harry unveiled a bronze likeness of their mother Princess Diana by the sculptor Ian Rank-Broadley. Located in the Sunken Garden at Kensington Palace, it includes three unnamed children standing about her.The occasion combined respectful expressions of sympath
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