Farewell, Prince Philip, chancellor of the University of Cambridge and scourge of Cambridge city council. A 4m-high bronze statue of the prince, previously described by the council’s public art manager as “possibly the poorest-quality work that has ever been submitted”, is to be removed from outside an office block in the city, where it had been put up without planning permission.
Philip, who died in 2021, was never one to pull his punches, so let us be frank. The Don is an awful sculpture: part Dementor, part bumblebee, with a strange sunken face like a meringue that didn’t rise. The Uruguayan sculptor Pablo Atchugarry, named as the artist behind the work, has disavowed it. The man who commissioned it, Bill Gredley, has defended it, saying
