It seems that the current First Lady has not voiced any objections to this act of vandalism, but then I haven’t heard much about Melania’s activities in the community or social sphere.

she left school at 15 to become a counting house clerk for a London store, working 10 hours a day on a 6-day week, for 5 shillings a week, or 20p.

adopted her maternal grandmother’s maiden name “Lynn” as her stage name when she was eleven, joining Madame Harris’s Kracker Kabaret Kids

She returned home ‘in an ecstatic daze’, intent on a medical career.

In 2018 a statue of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett was erected in Parliament Square. It was commissioned for the centenary celebrations of The Representation of the People Act, passed in 1918. Dame Millicent is the first woman to be honoured with a statue in this iconic location. Let’s make sure she is not the last.