two years after Queen Victoria’s death in 1901. The imposing statue atop a large stone platform depicts Her Majesty in her prime adorning the crown jewels - the sceptre in her right hand ...

An artist-designed outfit adorning an early-20th-century statue ... to meet her idol. “This piece reflects on Liverpool’s complicity with slavery, and how Queen Victoria and Britain were ...

holding the royal sceptre in her left hand while her right hand points to the Thames Estuary. Mayor of Southend Bernard Wiltshire Tolhurst commissioned the statue to commemorate Queen Victoria’s ...