Duke’s to offer Parliament’s Queen Victoria statue

BILLIONS of pounds worth of urgent renovation work could force MPs out of the crumbling Houses of Parliament, but a statue of Queen Victoria discovered in the shrubbery of a Hampshire garden underlines that the buildings have needed frequent repairs.

The 5ft 8in (1.73m) high carved stone figure (left) was probably removed from the Palace of Westmins…

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