Queen Portrait Defaced
June 14, 2013 by staff
Queen Portrait Defaced, The queen’s official Diamond Jubilee portrait was defaced with spray paint today by a “desperate father” who campaigners say was wrongly separated from his two daughters and was “trying to appeal to the queen for help.”
Forty-one-year-old Tim Haries used turquoise paint to spray the word “help” across the queen’s portrait in Westminster Abbey, the site of her coronation almost exactly 60 years ago, when he was tackled by security guards, according to police and the campaign group Fathers4Justice.
Haries was arrested on suspicion of criminal damage, police said. Westminster Abbey said it would assess the damage to the painting, which was commissioned for the Diamond Jubilee last year and shows a contemplative Queen Elizabeth II in the abbey, wearing her state dress and a crimson velvet robe of state.
Fathers 4 Justice denied Haries acted on the group’s behalf, but identified Haries as a member and portrayed him as representative of a society full of fathers improperly kept away from their children by family courts.
“Where do you go when your government isn’t listening to you and the courts aren’t listening to you?” asked Fathers4Justice head Nadine O’Connor, who passionately defended Davis to ABC News. “This is a pretty desperate call to the one person who’s left — the queen. Her portrait hangs in the courts and this is her government.”
Last weekend, Haries changed his Facebook profile photo to his two daughters’ faces on a missing poster. “Believed to have been abducted by there father would be greatly appreciated.”
Many people on Facebook and Twitter displayed horror at Haries’ action, describing him as a “vandal” or a “sicko.” One English Twitter user asked Fathers4Justice to expel Haries for “disgusting behavior.”
Lord Harris, who purchased the portrait for the abbey, lambasted Haries, telling the BBC, “To take it out on [the queen] is ridiculous.”
But O’Connor portrayed Haries as a hero, acting along the same lines as the suffragettes, the women who broke the law 100 years ago in order to win the right to vote.
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