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# A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/neskolko-dnei-nazad-v-luvre-prilepili-k-stene-portret-merzopakostnogo-endriu-mauntbetten-vindzora-lishennogo-titula-printsa/
- Published: 2026-02-27T12:35:18.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-01T05:26:48.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Monarchies, Museums, Observations, Heritage, Society, Paris

A few days ago at the Louvre, a portrait of the loathsome Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, stripped of his title of Prince, was stuck to a wall. The news calls the people who did it activists. Naturally, they have some political or moral justification for their demonstration. In principle, after all, one can provide a foundation for anything at all.

But to my mind this is no activism, but hooliganism bordering on vandalism. One may not exploit the imperfections of security in public spaces in order to manifest whatever comes into one's head.

Purely technically, it would be very difficult to prevent people from bringing into museums, as in this case, various objects or images and fixing them to the walls. Otherwise a visit to a cultural institution risks turning into the equivalent of entering a high-security facility, with several perimeters of searches, checks, interrogations, applications and the like. So one is left to hope for influence of an unregulated kind: for a start, condemnation of such "actions" instead of turning them into memes, and calling them by their proper names: hooliganism, vandalism, causing damage, barbarism, destruction of property.

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