THE current Duke of Wellington has spoken about seeing the funny side of his ancestor’s statue in Glasgow.
He has also told how he struggled to find a picture of the world-famous monument without a traffic cone on his head for a book.
The world-famous statue has adorned a cone since the 1980s.
The statue was sculpted by Italian artist Carlo Marochetti and erected in 1844.
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Speaking to The Sunday Times, the present duke said: “I was surprised. It has become, I realise, an iconic image of Glasgow. I think it’s amusing in a way and bizarre in another way.
“When I did a book a few years ago on all the statues and paintings of the first duke, it was very, very difficult to get a good photograph of the statue without a cone.
“Eventually, someone in the city council very kindly did supply me with a photograph of the statue without the cone and I was able to put it in the book.”
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