At that time it stood in what is now Statue Square in Central. The occupying Japanese governor-general found its presence there irksome, and ordered that it be removed and replaced with a monument inscribed with his own edicts. The Queen's statue was shipped off to Japan as a trophy of war.
當時女王像佇立在今日中環的皇后像廣場上，佔領香港的日本總督認為雕像太礙眼，下令拆去，改放總督諭示碑文，女王塑像則被當作戰利品，運往日本。