ROYAL TIFF DELAYS MEMORIAL PLANS.
EDWARD AND ALEXANDER CANNOT AGREE QN MONUMENT
TO QUEEN VICTORIA • -i
The court officials are puzzled and annoyed at the strange reluctance of King Edward to pass the final plans for the finishing of the Queen Victoria memorial.
The actual preparation of the ground for the enormous piece of statuary which is crowned by the figure of Queen Victoria will commence in a few days, but all the efforts of the sculptors and the Office of Works to induce King Edward to give his choice regarding the plan for finishing the processional road from this statue to the hole which has been knocked in the side of Trafalgar square, have been in vain. One beautiful design for a fine archway of stone to be erected at the point where the road will run into the square has been lying waiting for the King’s initials for three months past, and the work is now at a standstill. One generally credited explanation of the delay is that the. king and Queen Alexander do not agree with {regard to The final ornamentation of 'England's monument to the royal
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Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 8, 25 September 1906, Page 8
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190ROYAL TIFF DELAYS MEMORIAL PLANS. Northland Age, Volume 3, Issue 8, 25 September 1906, Page 8
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