by the Prince of Wales, who described the sculpture as“ a fitting tribute to my darling grandmother”. The Queen Mother was widowed at the age of 51, and although she lived for another 50 years, Philip Jackson’ s sculpture shows her at this age. Philip spent days pouring over photographs in the archive at Windsor Castle and met the Queen Mother when she was 100, to present her with a statue of her late husband Kind George VI, which now stands outside Dartmouth Naval College. Philip Jackson says:“ Meeting the Queen Mother at the time was incredibly useful because one could see what a great spirit she was. Even at that age she was a remarkable example of how you can live life to the full, right to the very end.” Philip adds:“ When you look at the photographs and the footage, you seldom catch her without a smile on her face – it was so obvious that she had the spark of life in her and I really wanted to get that life into the work. But at the same time, this is an official memorial, showing her as Elizabeth the Queen, so what I did was to get the wind just moving her robes slightly, and a faint smile playing on her lips.”
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