I was on my way to a lecture by Adrien Gardère last night at the Royal Hospital in Chelsea when I nearly bumped into a large gilt statue of Charles II in the so-called Figure Court on the south side.   Oddly camp, it was presented in 1682, the year the Hospital opened to treat the victims of the Battle of Sedgemoor and two years after its sculptor, Grinling Gibbons, so much better known for his wood carving, had been made King’s Carver:-