Diana Memorial Fountain
A ring of flowing Cornish granite in Hyde Park where you can dip your feet, designed to reflect the spirit of Princess Diana.
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The lowdown
Unlike most memorials, the Diana fountain invites you to touch it. It is a wide oval channel of beautifully smooth Cornish granite, with water flowing in two directions around the ring, bubbling over textures in some stretches and gliding calm in others, meant to capture Diana's open and inclusive spirit.
On warm days people sit along the edge with their feet in the cool water and children paddle in the shallows, which is exactly what the designer intended. Set on the grass between the Serpentine and the trees, it is a free, gentle, very un-stuffy place to rest in the middle of Hyde Park.
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