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Victoria Memorial

The gilded Victory over the roundabout in front of the palace, and the steps everybody stands on for the balcony.

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Photo by Loco Steve from Bromley, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

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Thomas Brock's memorial of 1911 puts Victoria in marble facing the Mall with a golden Victory above her and figures of Courage, Constancy, Truth and Motherhood around the base, in a rond-point Aston Webb laid out as the climax of the processional route. Its steps are where the crowds stood for the balcony appearances of the last century - VE Day, the coronation, the weddings, the jubilees - and where the television cameras go; the view up the Mall from here is the one in every royal film.

Where
Queen's Gardens, The Mall, SW1A 1AA
Nearest station
St. James's Park · 6 min walk

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