Fury as restaurant dangling over Waterloo memorial belts out ABBA hit on loop
A RESTAURANT is belting out ABBA hit Waterloo on loop — as it dangles over the 1815 battle site memorial.
The Dinner in the Sky attraction, which offers guests a £250-a-head airborne dining experience, has been branded tasteless.
It hangs from a crane over the Lion’s Mound site, where 10,800 soldiers died in the battle.
Retired British Major General Ashley Truluck, 75, raged online: “Belgian commercial interests turning the Waterloo battlefield into Disneyland.”
And Dennis Abbott, a British Waterloo battlefield guide and Royal Legion member, told The Sun: “I think it’s rather tasteless.
“Visitor numbers at the memorial have still not returned to pre-Covid levels and I think that’s behind this.”
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Waterloo, the site of the decisive British and Prussian victory over Napoleon, is now overseen by a French company on behalf of four Belgian parishes.
It allowed Dinner in the Sky, which has run 5,000 similar events worldwide, to set up there until June 29.
But the sound of ABBA’s 1974 Eurovision winner as the restaurant is lifted up has visitors to the site wincing.
Marcus Cribb said: “After ABBA, there was some very loud dance music . . . shouldn’t happen on most battlefields.”
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Dinner in the Sky declined to comment.