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Queen Elizabeth Gate

The gates into Hyde Park put up for the Queen Mother's ninetieth birthday, a lion and a unicorn in painted steel and bronze.

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Photo by Chris McKenna, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Giuseppe Lund's gates of 1993, with David Wynne's lion and unicorn, were unveiled by the Queen for her mother and paid for by public subscription; the flowing steel and the pale blue paintwork divided opinion at the time and still do, which the Queen Mother, who liked them, did not mind. They stand at the Hyde Park Corner entrance beside Apsley House, on the route of the Diana memorial walk.

Where
Hyde Park Corner, W1J 7NT
Nearest station
Hyde Park Corner · 3 min walk

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