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Dead Prince Harry sculpture stirs controversy

Fri Oct 5, 2007 2:59pm EDT
File photo shows Britain's Prince Harry wearing the beret of the Blues and Royals in his final training exercise, Exercise Threshold, in Cyprus, March 2006 in this handout picture released by Ministry of Defence on April 11, 2006. Controversial American sculptor Daniel Edwards has done it again with a work depicting Prince Harry, third in line to the throne, as having been killed in action in Iraq. REUTERS/Corporal Ian Holding/RLC/MoD/Files/Handout

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - Controversial American sculptor Daniel Edwards has done it again with a work depicting British Prince Harry, third in line to the throne, as having been killed in action in Iraq.

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The work "Iraq War Memorial: Death of Prince Harry" shows the prince clad in Army uniform with a vulture at his feet and clutching a locket of his dead mother Princess Diana.

The Daily Mail newspaper said Clarence House, the London home and office of Harry's father Prince Charles, was outraged. But a spokesman for Clarence House declined to comment to Reuters.

Trafalgar Hotel where the work will go on show from next Thursday for three days as part of a contemporary art fair, also declined to comment on the work.

It is the latest in a series of works by Edwards that seem designed to shock and create controversy.

Previous pieces have included a naked and crouching Britney Spears giving birth, Paris Hilton being autopsied and several severed heads.
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