Queen Victoria memorial in Melbourne vandalised on King Charles Coronation weekend
Vandals attack Melbourne’s Queen Victoria memorial with red paint on the weekend of King Charles’s coronation
- Queen Victoria Memorial covered in red paint
- Water balloons filled with paint thrown at the statue
Heartless vandals threw red paint over a Queen Victoria monument on the same weekend as King Charles III’s coronation.
The monument, which features an 11-metre-tall statue of Queen Victoria, was damaged after being bombarded with water balloons filled with red paint.
It is clear that anti-monarchists targeted the statue on Saturday night with several red handprints on the historic stone monument.
The memorial is located in Melbourne’s inner city Queen Victoria Gardens, near the National Art Gallery and the Arts Centre.
The monument, which features an 11m tall statue of Queen Victoria, was damaged after being bombarded with water balloons filled with red paint (pictured)
The monument was attacked by vandals on the same weekend of the coronation of King Charles and his wife Camilla at London’s Westminster Abbey.
Melbourne City Councilors were pictured scrubbing the statue on Monday morning, as celebrations for the UK’s Royals continued.
Created by artist James White, the statue was unveiled in 1907 as a tribute to Queen Victoria who had died six years earlier in 1901.
Victoria Police are investigating the matter.