Queen Elizabeth smiles during a stop at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2022.Photo: PAUL GROVER/POOL/AFP via Getty
Plans are in motion for aQueen Elizabethmemorial to be created in the U.K., a new report claims.
According toThe Telegraph, a team is being assembled to commission the national memorial and more details will be released in September.
“The Royal household and the Government are understood to have been working ‘hand in hand’ on the project and the membership of the committee will be announced before the anniversary of her death on September 8,” the newspaper reported Friday.
The update came two weeks after the U.K. government releasednew guidanceon the use of Queen Elizabeth’s name for memorialization.
Royals at Trooping the Colour in 2022.Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Chris Jackson/Getty Images
Giving another hint that a tribute is being planned, the statement said, “Careful consideration will be given in due course to the commissioning of an official national memorial to Queen Elizabeth II.”
Though Buckingham Palace has yet to make an official statement on what’s happening behind the scenes, the report is no surprise. The monarch, who made history as the longest-reigning monarch in British history with over 70 years on the throne, died in September 2022 at age 96, and an official national memorial has yet to be erected in her honor.
The memorials share the same classic aesthetic, and the Queen Mother Memorial was thoughtfully positioned close to the King George VI Memorial. The royal couple was married from 1936 to 1952.
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King Charles revealed the first posthumous statue of his late mother while visiting the city of York in November and spoke about the unexpected timing of the unveiling at York Minster, Britain’s largest Gothic cathedral.
“When this statue was first planned five years ago, during a reign of unprecedented duration and achievement, it was intended as a celebration of the late Queen’s Platinum Jubilee,” King Charles said,CNNreported.
“Now, as we have witnessed, with great sadness, the passing of that reign, it is unveiled in her memory, as a tribute to a life of extraordinary service and devotion,” he added.
King Charles, next to Queen Camilla, unveils the statue of Queen Elizabeth II outside York Minster.Danny Lawson - WPA Pool/Getty Images
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