I know that I’m not the first person to admire the Albert Memorial, but finding myself seeing it for the first time in a long while (it’s not my part of town), I couldn’t help but be impressed by its Victorian imperial pomp, solid and confident and gilt, thanks to Jocelyn Stevens, at the end of the grass sward. I went up to it to pay my respects before a meeting at the Serpentine. Odd to think how much it was hated and reviled:-