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Antique Royal Menu & Dinner Seating Plan Queen Victoria Golden Jubilee 1887
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Fine antique Menu and Seating Plan for the Golden Jubilee Dinner of Queen Victoria dated 21st June 1887, accompanied by newspaper cuttings regarding the celebrations. It was celebrated with a banquet to which 50 European kings and princes were invited.
On 20 June 1887 the Queen had breakfast outdoors under the trees at Frogmore, where Prince Albert had been buried. She then travelled by train from Windsor to Paddington then on to Buckingham Palace.
The following day, she participated in a procession in an open landau through London to Westminster Abbey escorted by Colonial Indian cavalry. On her return to the Palace, she went to her balcony and was cheered by the crowd. In the ballroom she distributed brooches made for the Jubilee to her family. In the evening, she put on a gown embroidered with silver roses, thistles and shamrocks and attended a banquet. Afterwards she received a procession of diplomats and Indian princes. She was then wheeled in her chair to sit and watch fireworks in the palace garden.
From the collection of Charles Thomson, Page of the Backstairs to Queen Victoria and the Royal family.
Menu Size: 22 x 14 cm approx
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