Animal Rights Activists Target New King Charles Portrait

The first official portrait of King Charles III got an unexpected makeover at around 12pm local time today, June 11, when two animal rights protesters accessed the painting at the Philip Mould Gallery in London and pasted a sticker depicting Wallace from the stop-motion animation series Wallace and Gromit over the monarch’s face. The two protesters, Daniel Juniper and Ben Thomas, are part of the group Animal Rising, which aimed to call attention to its latest report alleging dire conditions …