Protesters have smeared chocolate cake over a waxwork of King Charles III in the latest vandalism of public art by climate campaigners.
The lifelike royal display in Madame Tussauds in London was targeted by two members of the group Just Stop Oil.
The pair stood at the podium housing waxworks of the royal family including William and Kate and the Queen Consort.
The activists removed their black top layers of clothing to reveal white ‘Just Stop Oil’ T-shirts.
Then they took turns smearing a square of creamy cake onto the face of King Charles as bystanders cried out ‘Stop’.
The activists told those watching inside the museum that it was “time for action” in their demand for the UK government to stop new oil and gas licenses.
Tweet from @JustStop_Oil
London police said four people had been arrested and charged for criminal damage.
“We responded quickly to an incident at Madame Tussauds after two people threw food at a statue at approximately 10:50hrs,” London’s Metropolitan Police tweeted.
“Four people have been arrested for criminal damage related to this incident.”
The incident was the latest in a series of recent attacks on prized works of art across Europe by activist groups drawing attention to climate-related issues.
On Sunday (local time), protesters threw mashed potato at Claude Monet’s ‘Haystacks’ masterpiece in the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany.
Earlier this month, Just Stop Oil protesters threw two cans of Heinz tomato soup over one of the most famous paintings in the world, Vincent van Gogh’s painting ‘Sunflowers’.
The famed still life in London’s National Gallery was behind glass, so it wasn’t damaged.
The stunt shocked people worldwide and sparked a proposed crackdown on climate activists from the UK parliament.
Just Stop Oil is a coalition of groups working to change UK policies on fossil fuels.
Their goal is to “ensure that the government commits to ending all new licences and consents for the exploration, development and production of fossil fuels in the UK”.
The group says it will use non-violent civil resistance tactics, such as strikes, boycotts and mass protests, to target the UK’s oil and gas infrastructure to force UK policy-makers to meet their demands.
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