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Letters: Diana, Princess of Wales, deserved better than this unbecoming statue


The statue of the Princess of Wales was unveiled last week
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SIR – It was astonishing, but somehow not unexpected, to see such an unbecoming memorial to Princess Diana unveiled last week (report, July 2). It is positively Stalinist in its dreary greyness, its unsympathetic portrayal of its subject, and its consequent failure to capture a likeness or her ebullient character.
Much better would have been an even more extensive memorial planting of the Sunken Garden.
Marian Waters
 
SIR – Simon Heffer explores important issues in his lament over the poor quality of modern public statues (Features, July 3), perhaps most 
 clearly shown in the festival of tat inflicted on the “empty plinth” in Trafalgar Square. ....

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