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London: Britain has always struggled with how to immortalise the People’s Princess – often with spectacularly bad consequences.
Eight years to the day since Diana and her lover Dodi Al-Fayed died in Paris, billionaire Harrods owner Mohamed Al-Fayed unveiled a garish statue of the couple dancing on water beneath the wings of an albatross. The work, titled
Innocent Victims, depicted the Princess of Wales in a low-cut dress with a slit up the side and became such a source of ridicule that the store’s new Qatari owners decided to get rid of it.
Prince William and Prince Harry take the covers off the new Kensington Palace statue.
Princess Diana statue unveiled by William and Harry
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Combative and confrontational, not maternal : Diana s statue gets mixed reviews
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