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The ministry of foreign affairs has not yet responded to a request for comment.

"Looking at something that isn't even real - where the person doesn't exist - we don't yet know the impact of that yet," he says.

The British sculptor told the PA news agency that he did not have a "defined idea" of how the statue would look yet, and that he would want the Royal Family's approval.

And yet, true to his core as an iconoclastic dreamer willing to risk everything for the sake of discovering the unknown, he still says, “It was worth it.”

Kimmel, who has expressed sympathy for Kirk’s family online, has not yet commented on his removal.