Despite Protests, Thatcher Gets a Statue in Her Honor
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LONDON — Despite protests that previous prime ministers had to be dead to rate a statue in Britain’s Houses of Parliament, Margaret Thatcher has unveiled her silicon bronze likeness.
The statue, standing 7 feet 4 inches, faces the likeness of Winston Churchill in the member’s lobby of the Palace of Westminster, the parliamentary building on the bank of the River Thames.
“I might have preferred iron, but bronze will do. It won’t rust. And, this time, I hope, the head will stay on,” Ms. Thatcher, 81, said to laughter and applause at a ceremony on Wednesday. The 81-year-old baroness was referring to a marble statue of her that was decapitated in 2002 by a vandal.
The statue, by sculptor Antony Dufort, shows her in a typical lively and swashbuckling posture, right arm outstretched, as though she is addressing the House of Commons.
