Whose memory was the victoria memorial built in

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Of the memorials in Kensington Gardens, many share a close connection with Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, the most important to the latter being the ornate Gothic masterpiece designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott, known as the Albert Memorial, which was unveiled in 1872 and restored in recent memory. The statue to the great doctor Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was revealed by Prince Albert and has stood in Kensington Gardens since 1862 when it was moved there from Trafalgar Square. The cast-iron glory of the bronze-painted Coalbrookdale Gates at the south end of the gardens were the creative child of Charles Crookes and made for the Great Exhibition of 1851. Christopher Wren’s ‘Queen Anne’s Alcove’ beside Lancaster Gate may also have provided loose inspiration for Queen Victoria’s beautifully decorated blue and pink-tiled alcove (exedra) on her private beach at Osborne House; One monument in Kensington Gardens, however, commemorates Queen Victoria unlike any other – the Queen Victoria Statue. Most appropriately, it stands in front of Kensington Palace, the palace where the future Princess Victoria of Kent was consequently’ now Queen. It thus shows a young, eighteen-year-old Queen in her coronation robes, although Queen Victoria was in fact, seventy-four at the time that it was presented by the Kensington Golden Jubilee Memorial Executive Committee and unveiled, in 1893. London has many statues of Queen Victoria. The Queen is immortalised at various ages in bronze throughout ...