GEE, how exciting! Her Majesty atop a horse is among the ideas for a new Queen Elizabeth II memorial.
Here, we reveal the five shortlisted designs unveiled by the Government yesterday — and YOU can have your say.
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The five shortlisted designs for the late Queen’s memorial statue have been revealedCredit: Getty
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Architects Foster + Partners suggest their crowd-pleaser ‘honours Queen Elizabeth II’s ability to unite people, communities and nations’Credit: PA
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Landscape architects J&L Gibbons called the Queen ‘the nation’s bedrock’, adding: ‘It is with bedrock that we have created a bridge over soil, tree roots and water.’Credit: PA
The tribute to our longest-serving monarch, who died in 2022, will be sited near Buckingham Palace and cost up to £46MILLION.
Three designs show the Queen riding, including one on a bed of lilies depicting togetherness, another on a bedrock for fortitude.
There is an oak for steadfastness, and intertwined bridges for her many works.
The public have until May 19 to give their views before a winner is picked ahead of a likely unveiling next year.
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Committee chair Lord Janvrin said: “Memories of her are still fresh and we need to capture the essence.”
Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith says his oak showpiece would be ‘a landscape of story-telling around objects from the world she lived in’Credit: PA
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Architects WilkinsonEyre say the web of bridges ‘draws inspiration from threads of her life’, including her reign, faith, values, the Commonwealth, nature, family and Prince PhilipCredit: PA
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Architects Heatherwick Studio say the horse centrepiece with lilies is all about ‘togetherness . . . what the Queen stood for . . . unity.’Credit: PA
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