Dead Prince Harry sculpture stirs controversy

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.

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.