Princess Diana Memorial Fountain

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Address:: Princess Diana Memorial Fountain, Hyde Park, Kensington,
London
England
Buses:: 9 10 52 360 452
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Did you know… Princess Diana was distantly related to: Humphrey Bogart (seventh cousin, twice removed); Winston Churchill (fourth cousin, twice removed); Oliver Cromwell (first cousin, eleven times removed); Lawrence of Arabia (fourth cousin, thrice removed); Lord Lucan (second cousin, once removed), and President Roosevelt (seventh cousin, thrice removed).

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The controversial Princess Diana Memorial Fountain is in Hyde Park, on the south side of the Serpentine. Described as a “moat without a castle”, and draped around the grounds “like a necklace” it is actually nothing but a stream of solid concrete, with water running over numerous ruts and gullies.

It was beset by problems when it opened, and a couple of people even fell and broke their ankles. The area around the stream became horrendously muddy with kids slipping and sliding all over the place – and leaves from the trees bunged up the drains.

Happily the problems have now been resolved, and the Princess of Wales can stop spinning in her grave. The memorial is still a load of rubbish though.

Why didn’t they erect a monument, or a fountain in the Round Pond instead?

>> Drummerboy’s blog – Princess Di Memorial Fountain

Drummerboy – “Let me explain exactly what it is… so you can fully appreciate how rubbish it is. It’s a big ring of industrial grey concrete, with lots of little lumps, bumps and undulations in it. It’s not marble. Or granite. It’s the same kind of concrete that they used to build the Westway Flyover on the Edgware Road. The water is pumped out from the top and bubbles and gurgles its way down to the end, and people are supposed to sit on the side and paddle their feet and think of the Princess… hopefully without slipping over and cracking their nut… continued.”

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ian meyer – “Memorials arent supposed to be there to make people laugh and smile. If they were then we should knock down St Pauls and replace it with a Big Top circus. at the very least it should remind people of the person, hence the name -- memorial -- memory -- but… read the full review”
londonlover – “I think it probably was built out of the best materials... but that is not really the issue. The issue is why did they build that? It is not a memorial in the strictest sense. Because a memorial is supposed to bring attention to the person's life. It seems… read the full review”