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Empty room getting statuary displaying monarch (4,6)

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I believe the answer is:

mary stuart

'monarch' is the definition.

'empty room getting statuary displaying' is the wordplay.
'empty' means to remove the middle letters.
'getting' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'displaying' indicates an anagram (the anagrammed letters display the answer).
'room' with its middle taken out is 'rm'.
'rm'+'statuary'='rmstatuary'
'rmstatuary' with letters rearranged gives 'MARY STUART'.

I've seen this clue in The Everyman puzzle in The Observer.
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