Palace portraits are truly majestic
Date published: 20 April 2012
SEEING double: Saddleworth School’s Ella Ryan-Atkin with her self-portrait
PUPILS in Oldham have been making faces - as part of a world-record attempt for the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
Pupils from three Oldham schools had seen their faces projected on the front of Buckingham Palace last night.
The Prince’s Foundation for Children and The Arts added the pictures of 200,000 youngsters — including those from Saddleworth School, Alexandra Park and Newman RC College — to a huge montage of the Queen.
The projections, ‘Face Britain’, will also be shown on a screen at Manchester’s Exchange Square tonight and tomorrow (8.30pm-11.30pm).
Organisers hope the participants have done enough to get into the record books — beating the 28,267 artists who contributed to an installation in Israel in 2009.
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