Government papers record that her “colourful personality and romantic cause attracted considerable interest and media coverage”.įoreign Office staff were worried that Mercouri was winning the debate: “On occasions her dramatic flourishes verged on the histrionic, but she undoubtedly stole the limelight from her protagonist, David Wilson of the British Museum”. The future of the Marbles became a major issue during a visit to London by the then Greek culture minister, the internationally famed actor Melina Mercouri. Newly declassified UK government documents reveal that the Foreign Office was dismissive of the British Museum’s lobbying to retain the Parthenon Marbles in 1983, the year when a formal claim was first lodged.
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