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The Queen reportedly asked an artist not to add a tiara to a sculpture of her so that she would be “the same” as her husband Prince Philip. Frances Segelman had already made a bronze bust of the Duke of Edinburgh and asked the monarch if she would like a similar one.
The artist shared her experiences of working with the Queen ahead of a new exhibition Majesty: A Tribute To The Queen, which opened at Spitalfields in east London on Wednesday.
She told The Telegraph that when she asked Her Majesty if she wanted her own bust “she said that would be very, very nice.
“But looking at the photograph I was showing her, she said: ‘I wouldn’t want the tiara on next to the Duke of Edinburgh as he’s got just a shirt and tie.
“So I wouldn’t want my tiara on, I would want us to be the same.”
Ms Segelman then had to make another version of the bust without the tiara and redo the Queen’s hair.
The sculptor added: “I thought it was very lovely. She was so caring [and] obviously loved him very, very much.
“Those two are there in the palace together like that and all the others have the tiara. This is quite unusual.”
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“I had to pluck up so much courage, but she never took any notice, she still carried on!”
Ms Segelman’s sculptures portraying the Queen, Prince Philip and King Charles will feature in the new exhibition.
The exhibition unites three royal artists – Ms Segelman, Rob Munday, who created the first officially commissioned holographic portrait of Elizabeth II in 2004, and Christian Furr, who aged 28 became the youngest artist commissioned to paint an official portrait of the sovereign in 1995.
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