Monarchs & Royalty
Charles II
A weathered Merry Monarch stands in the square laid out in his reign. The statue vanished in 1875 — spending nearly a century in a private garden where W. S. Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan once kept it — before quietly returning to Soho Square in 1938.
- Subject
- King Charles II
- Sculptor
- Caius Gabriel Cibber
- Unveiled
- 1681
- Material
- Portland stone
- Location
- Soho Square Gardens
