Don’t put a tiara on my sculpture, late Queen told artist

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with the late Queen in 2007, said she asked the monarch if she would like a version of the bronze cast to sit alongside the one she had previously made of the Duke at Buckingham Palace. “She said that would be very, very nice,” recalled Ms Segelman. “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. ”It meant Ms Segelman had to make one version without the tiara, redoing the monarch’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. ”Three of Ms Segelman’s sculptures depicting the monarch, the Duke of Edinburgh and King Charles feature in an exhibition called Majesty: A Tribute To The Queen, which opened at Quantus Gallery in Spitalfields, east London, on Wednesday.