Over two years on since the world lost Britain’s longest reigning monarch, a new statue is set to be commissioned in order to honour her impressive and enduring legacy. Yet when it comes to deciding what exactly represent her life, the committee behind the project has revealed that “nothing is off the table.”

Armed with a budget of £46million, the committee organising the new monument, which is to be located in St.James’ Park, revealed that it “could include digital .” Speaking about the project in , the former leader of the House of Lords who is on the memorial committee said: “We do not want to be prescriptive about this.”

“There are a set of guidelines and principles that we have set out. And we are then looking to those artists, those designers, to come up with the best ideas.

“We want a memorial that is beautiful, that speaks to that legacy, but is also fit for the future,” Amos added.

ruled the country for a record breaking 70 year tenure on the throne, and continued to serve up until the day she sadly passed away on September 8, 2022. She passed

Since her death, work has been underway to commemorate her legacy, with a committee chaired by her former private secretary, Lord Robin Janvrin, having been set up around 18 months ago to mark her historic role and place in British history. As part of the process to decide on the best way to immortalise her, members of the committee have visited different parts of the UK in order to ask the public for their views on how to pay tribute to the late Queen.

“Nothing is off the table,” said a member of the committee and deputy chief executive of The Diana Award, the only award named in honour of the late “As a committee we are looking into how digital has revolutionised some of the [U.K.’s] attractions, and whether that’s AI or AR [augmented reality] — [we’re] really fascinated by that,” Holmes added.

The final plans will still need to be discussed with the government, but it is also understood that and other key members of the will also be consulted before any work goes ahead.

“I think it’s unlikely to end up being a sort of metal spike,” said Anna Keay, another member of the committee, who is also an esteemed historian. “But equally, I think the King’s got much broader taste in terms of design than he’s often given credit for.”

The monument is set to be unveiled on April 21, 2026 on what would have been Queen Elizabeth’s 100th birthday.

“We’re really thinking about what’s going to best do justice to the subject matter, to the age, to the contribution that she made,” Keay said, before reiterating that the committee was keen to “come up with something that’s really going to live up to the stature of the person that we’re celebrating.”

Design teams that wish to be considered for the project have until 20th January to submit their proposals, with guidelines for submission stating that the winning entry will be one that can “tell the story” of the late Queen’s long reign “through integrated design, landscaping and placemaking”.

Crucially, it must also fit in with the location’s “very historic landscape” as well as being “appropriate for the site”