The burning of Tussaud's does not leave Londoners entirely without a waxworks show, for.there are still the wax effigies .. ,klnS a and queens. in Westminster Abbey, which have been described ax a:-very grimy and antiquated Chamber of Horrors. Thore are fragment*' (not for general _ exhibition) going back to Queen Philhppa, and the origin of the effigies; was the carrying in the funeral procession of a wax effigy for the publio to gape at. Those that remain are not usually flattering, notably; the hag-ridden • ??r n of Queen Elizabeth, a restoration in 1/60 of the. original figure carried at her funeral. Charles 11. also is not quito the Charles of romantic presentment. Most of them, no doubt, were from casts taken after death. V
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 148, 26 June 1925, Page 11
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