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A JAM JAR has been secretly embedded in the left leg of the Earl of Mountbatten of Burma statue, which is being unveiled by the Queen today before 12 visiting Royal families at Foreign Office Green, Whitehall.

Yesterday the Czech-born sculptor, Franta Belsky, revealed to me the contents of his eccentric "time capsule," which documents the two years spent creating the statue.  These include an account of the £35,000 he was awarded for the work, a newspaper cutting and a collection of uncirculated coins.

Belsky, whose maquette for the statue I produced here, had hoped to incorporate a captured enemy gun in the 9-ft bronze.  His "romantic" idea was quashed, however, by Lady Pamela Hicks, who protested that her peace-loving father hated war.  And so, the jam jar.