Queenly Quandary
Author: Jonathan Dalgleish
Stephen Bayley [A MEMORIAL FIT FOR A QUEEN, MARCH] is right to worry about the process and criteria that will determine a national memorial to our late Queen. A sculpture of her as a countrywoman with headscarf and corgis — how she might have seen herself — would be twee. She was our diligent and hard-working head of state, not a volunteer at the church jumble. There are problems with a realist, true to life, sculpture, the most obvious being that as she was only 5 ft 3 inches tall, the plinth w...