# George III

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Content updated: 2026-06-22

George III stands in the City of Westminster as a bronze equestrian monument, showing King George III seated upright on horseback. Matthew Cotes Wyatt created the sculpture, whose realistic figures and carefully modelled horse reflect early nineteenth-century artistic taste. Its public setting places a British monarch among Westminster’s historic statues and monuments.

During the Second World War, authorities secretly moved the sculpture from London to Berkhamsted Castle to protect it from bombing. After the war, they returned it to its original location, where the bronze continues to connect the city’s present with its royal and wartime past. That hidden wartime journey gives this mounted figure a history beyond its formal pose.

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## Photos

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