26 November 2013
Well, it didn’t take long. Prince George of Cambridge has a starring role in the British Library’s latest exhibition, Georgians Revealed. A small Georgian garden has been created in the library’s piazza, complete with plaster sheep and a leafy gazebo.
Go into the gazebo and you find a putto, a plaster cast of a small boy suspended from the ceiling, with his arms outstretched — the signature wave tried out by the little Prince at his recent christening.
This is to honour the birth of the future King George VII. In fact, following his mother’s eye-catching example at St Andrews, nearly all of him is revealed as he flies through the air, only a little drapery getting in the way.
