The Little-Known Low-Down on Jubilees Past!
Posted by Guest Author on 31 May 2012 11:17:00 BST In Military History
Just in time for the main event, expert and Shire author Judith Millidge takes a look at precisely how popular past jubilees really were ...
The other side of the bunting
While researching Royal Jubilees, I came across a fair bit of sycophantic nonsense regarding the monarch and the monarchy stretching across two centuries. Disraeli famously said that, 'everyone likes flattery and when you come to royalty you should lay it on with a trowel', but even he may have baulked at some of the more extreme examples. One writer referred to George III's jubilee as 'a spontaneus effusion of love', and in 1886 MPs asked whether 'the jubilee year of Her Majesty's accession to the Throne should be appropriately celebrated in some National manner, so as to give pleasure and satisfaction to all loyal subjects'.Continue Reading