“No cheese, Gromit,” was written in a speech bubble. Additionally, the statement “Look at all this cruelty on RSPCA farms” was added to the picture at the central London Philip Mould gallery.
Unveiled at Buckingham Palace last month, it was artist Jonathan Yeo’s first official portrait of the King since the coronation.
Given that the King is the Royal Patron of the RSPCA and a huge fan of Nick Park’s British stop-motion Wallace and Gromit comedy franchise, Animal Rising claimed that two of its supporters were behind the action.
The Queen famously said that her husband’s “favourite people in the world” were inventor Wallace and his dog Gromit, the popular Aardman films’ heroes in The Wrong Trousers and A Grand Day Out.
One of the participants, Daniel Juniper, stated in a statement on the group’s website that they wished to alert him about claims of cruelty made about farms that have earned an RSPCA certification.
He said, “We hope this amuses His Majesty, but we also call on him to seriously reconsider if he wants to be associated with the awful suffering across farms being endorsed by the RSPCA.”
