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Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

Did you know that the Queen of Hawaii wrote a song for Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee?

Exactly 150 years ago, Queen Lili'uokalani of Hawaii wrote a song for Queen Victoria's 50th year as the reigning Queen of England:

Queen's Jubilee - by Queen Lili`uokalani

"All hail to you, Great Queen of England

Fair Queen who rules over land and sea

From northern seas to southern shores

Your way is known both far and near

We come to your shores, gracious lady

On this great day of your Jubilee

To bring kind greetings from afar

May heaven bless you, long may you reign

All hail, all hail, Empress of India

In this your year of Jubilee

Now kings, queens and princes great

Have all assembled here today

To pay due homage and reverent love

Hawaii joins with loyal fervor

May Heaven smile on you

God bless the Queen, long may she live"

So which one of you bitches is going to write a song for Queen Elizabeth II?

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by Anonymousreply 8January 20, 2022 5:42 AM

This is the song...

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by Anonymousreply 1January 19, 2022 5:56 PM

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 station to Paddington then to Buckingham Palace for a royal banquet that evening. Fifty foreign kings and princes, along with the governing heads of Britain's overseas colonies and dominions, attended. She wrote in her diary:

[quote] Had a large family dinner. All the Royalties assembled in the Bow Room, and we dined in the Supper-room, which looked splendid with the buffet covered with the gold plate. The table was a large horseshoe one, with many lights on it. The King of Denmark took me in, and Willy of Greece sat on my other side. The Princes were all in uniform, and the Princesses were all beautifully dressed. Afterwards we went into the Ballroom, where my band played.

The following day, she participated in a procession in an open landau through London to Westminster Abbey escorted by Colonial Indian cavalry.

During prayers for the Queen at the Abbey, a beam of sunlight fell upon her bowed head, which the future Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii observing noted as a mark of divine favor.

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.

At the Jubilee she engaged two Indian Muslims as waiters, one of whom was Abdul Karim.

A commemorative bust of Victoria was commissioned from the sculptor Francis John Williamson.

Many copies were made, and distributed throughout the British Empire.

A special Golden Jubilee Medal was instituted and awarded to participants of the jubilee celebrations.

Writer and geographer John Francon Williams published The Jubilee Atlas of the British Empire especially to commemorate Victoria's Jubilee and her Jubilee year.

Many cities commissioned new buildings to mark the event, including Queens Arcade in Leeds.

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by Anonymousreply 2January 19, 2022 6:03 PM

Beautiful.

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by Anonymousreply 3January 19, 2022 6:04 PM

It's A Jubilee!

by Anonymousreply 4January 20, 2022 2:33 AM

Gotta wonder how long it would have taken them to get to England from Hawaii in those days, & what was the route, around S.America or the other way around. All on the one ship?? I would have been sick the entire way......

by Anonymousreply 5January 20, 2022 5:05 AM

[quote] All on the one ship?

No, they'd take a moderately fast ship to San Fransisco. a quicker cross-country train to NY and then another ship to Southhampton and then another fast train directly to London.

by Anonymousreply 6January 20, 2022 5:15 AM

[quote] Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee

Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee was bigger.

by Anonymousreply 7January 20, 2022 5:28 AM

R6 is correct, this was 1887 and people who could afford it could cross the oceans by steamship. Google says it took a steamship two weeks to cross the Atlantic, and presumably another week or two to cross from Hawaii to California. The US had had a cross-country railroad for nearly ten years by then, so using steamships and railroads, someone as rich as a queen might have been able to travel from Hawaii in... maybe a month or less. She could also have communicated by Queen Victoria by telegraph for much or all of the way, the first transcontinental telegraph cables were laid across the Atlantic in the 1850s.

That's what a lot of people don't appreciate about the 19th century. They dismiss the era as backwards and repressed, but the fact is that the rate of technological advancement was staggering! At the beginning of the century, Jane Austen's heroines might live 24 miles from London but never visit because traveling was too difficult, but by the end of the century Sherlock Holmes could be anywhere in the country in a few hours, because he had a network of rail transport. He could also make telephone calls or send telegraphs to other countries, or read first-hand accounts of the Krakatoa disaster in his morning paper, a few hours after the disaster, which had been sent by undersea telegraph cable.

by Anonymousreply 8January 20, 2022 5:42 AM
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