King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial

The statues in 2015
51°30′19″N 0°08′01″W / 51.50514°N 0.13373°W / 51.50514; -0.13373
Location	London
Designer	William McMillan (statue of King George VI) Philip Jackson (statue of Queen Elizabeth)
Type	Memorial
Material	Bronze
Opening date	1955 (statue of King George VI) 2009 (statue of Queen Elizabeth)
Dedicated to	King George VI and Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

The King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Memorial, situated between The Mall and Carlton Gardens in central London, is a memorial to King George VI and his consort, Queen Elizabeth.^[1] Completed in its present form in 2009, the memorial incorporates an earlier, Grade II listed statue of George VI by William McMillan, unveiled by his daughter Queen Elizabeth II in 1955. The reconfigured memorial, which includes a statue of the Queen Mother by Philip Jackson, relief sculpture by Paul Day and an architectural setting by Donald Buttress and Donald Insall, was unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 2009.