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8.7.3 As the nineteenth century neared its end, so too did the greatest British life of all. Queen Victoria celebrated her Diamond Jubilee in June 1897, just after her seventy-eighth birthday. Few could recall Britain before Victoria, so epic had been her reign. She had emerged from her deep unpopularity of the 1870s and early 1880s to become the sentimental incarnation not just of the British nineteenth century, when it had finally achieved greatness as the world’s leading power, but of the ...

The queen arrives through the sovereigns entrance and then enters the robing room where she puts on the imperial state crown and royal robe. she enters the royal gallery and joins the state procession. the procession enters the house of lords where the queen takes the throne. at the command of the queen, the official known as the usher of the black rod is dispatched to fetch mps from the commons. the door of the commons is slammed in the ushers face. who then has to knock on the door three times...