Five shortlisted designs for new Queen Elizabeth II memorial statue revealed – and YOU can have your say

GEE, how exciting! Her Majesty atop a horse is among the ideas for a new Queen Elizabeth II memorial.

Here, we reveal the five shortlisted designs unveiled by the Government yesterday — and YOU can have your say.

GettyThe five shortlisted designs for the late Queen’s memorial statue have been revealed[/caption] PAArchitects Foster + Partners suggest their crowd-pleaser ‘honours Queen Elizabeth II’s ability to unite people, communities and nations’[/caption] PALandscape architects J&L Gibbons called the Queen ‘the nation’s bedrock’, adding: ‘It is with bedrock that we have created a bridge over soil, tree roots and water.’[/caption]

The tribute to our longest-serving monarch, who died in 2022, will be sited near Buckingham Palace and cost up to £46MILLION.

Three designs show the Queen riding, including one on a bed of lilies depicting togetherness, another on a bedrock for fortitude.

There is an oak for steadfastness, and intertwined bridges for her many works.

The public have until May 19 to give their views before a winner is picked ahead of a likely unveiling next year.

Committee chair Lord Janvrin said: “Memories of her are still fresh and we need to capture the essence.”

Have your say at: competitions.malcolmreading.com/queen elizabethmemorial/gallery.

Garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith says his oak showpiece would be ‘a landscape of story-telling around objects from the world she lived in’PA PAArchitects WilkinsonEyre say the web of bridges ‘draws inspiration from threads of her life’, including her reign, faith, values, the Commonwealth, nature, family and Prince Philip[/caption] PAArchitects Heatherwick Studio say the horse centrepiece with lilies is all about ‘togetherness . . . what the Queen stood for . . . unity.’[/caption]