Queen Victoria

The Queen is seated on a squared low backed throne the arms terminating in lions heads. Her head, crowned, is held erect and turned slightly to the left; her left arm rests on the arm of her throne, the right arm is bent, the hand clasping her sceptre, the end of which rests on her knee. She is shown in coronation robes, the full cloak falling in heavy folds over the two steps of the dais, is open to show the simple full length robe bound at the waist by a cord. Her feet rest on a cushion.

This is the original study by H.R.H Princess Louise for the figure of Queen Victoria now standing in the grounds of Kensington Palace. The statue as erected by the Borough of Kensington in 1893 in the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Queen's reign.