Campaigner on Canterbury's new Aphra Behn statue

Campaigner Charlotte Cornell on Canterbury's new Aphra Behn statue

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00:00I was teaching Afroben to students in Canterbury and I thought why isn't there anything in this

00:05city honouring her? She's huge! So I chatted with my daughter and we started a little campaign and

00:11a small educational charity and then I joined forces with Stuart at the Canterbury Commemoration

00:17Society who've put up other statues and together we really got the ball rolling. We are so excited

00:23about today and so excited that Her Majesty the Queen is visiting Canterbury to do the honours.

00:31We were thrilled that she accepted our invitation to come and honestly couldn't think of anyone

00:37better. The Queen is a huge supporter of literary charities, she's a huge supporter of literacy

00:44endeavours, she loves reading and Afroben was a huge royalist. She herself would be absolutely

00:52thrilled if she knew today the Queen of England were unveiling her statue, she would be just made up.