Imperial diamond
This week’s diamond jubilee celebrations will be hard-pressed to outdo those of Queen Victoria’s in 1897.
— A diamond jubilee was supposed to be a 75th anniversary, but it was brought forward by the government as an excuse for a mass celebration aimed at promoting British trade.
— On 22 June, the Queen was conveyed in a carriage along a six-mile route ending at St Paul’s, where an open air service was held so she did not have to disembark.
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