Three women in their place....

The place is Kensington Palace, where been Victoria was born and raised and where she was told that she had become Queen.  It was also the home of Princess Diana for some 15 years, and the statue of her sits in a beautiful sunken garden.  

The third women is Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll but not just for  my local connection nor even because of  Kingston Palace,  though she lived there too. 

It is because she planned and executed this statue of  her mother Queen Victoria, being a fine sculptor in her own right who trained at the National Art Training School.  

She was also closely associated with Sir Joseph Edgar Boehm, the Queens Sculptor , from whom she took lessons and in whose studio she was when he died, raising questions about their relationship.