Residents and visitors to Bath's exclusive Royal Crescent were horrified to see a "giant penis" mown into the lawn just days before a Coronation party is held.
Pranksters appear to have drawn the phallic feature overnight to the bemusement of locals who have been left wondering who did it.
It comes of course ahead of the King's Coronation on Saturday and a party is due to be held on the lawn at the famous Royal Crescent in Bath.
Up and down the country people will be holding street parties to mark the historic occasion with the bunting already being put up and plenty of ornaments for sale in shops.
The Royal Crescent attracts large numbers of tourists each year and many take in the impeccable lawns and the new feature that has been drawn is in contrast to the surroundings of 18th century Georgian grandeur.
The Crescent Lawn Company, which was set up in 2003, is the current caretaker of the lawns which are redolent of the country's most lauded landscape architect and gardener, Capability Brown.
One of the most famous features of it is the 'ha-ha', a type of sunken fence popular in the 18th century that gave landowners the illusion of an unbroken 'infinity lawn', yet still with a boundary for grazing livestock.
The phallic feature though is unexpected to affect the celebrations on Saturday where people will be hoping to avoid the showers that are expected.
A flyer for the Georgian-themed Coronation party at the Royal Crescent read: ‘’Celebrate the 300th anniversary of the Georgian era. Decorate your own regal crown, watch demonstrations on royal fashion and visit the Georgian Cook cooking up delicious recipes in the kitchen.’’
Meanwhile people will be hoping to catch a glimpse of the Red Arrows who will be taking part in an historic flypast of Buckingham Palace on Saturday and people across huge swathes of the south of England may also get to see them too.
More than 60 military aircraft will form a flypast on May 6, 2023 and restrictions will be in place on the airspace above the North Sea, East Anglia and London .
The six-minute flypast for the King's Coronation will include the world-famous Red Arrows, 16 helicopters, the historic Spitfires of the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, the RAF's brand-new P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
Joint RAF and RN crewed F-35B Lightning II jets and transport aircraft from the RAF's Air Mobility Force. It will be the first flypast involvement of the RAF's new Envoy IV CC1 aircraft.
The route will take the planes over parts of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex on the way to London before heading out of the capital towards Surrey, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire as they disperse.
