Britain’s first jubilee, held in 1809 for George III, was celebrated with abundant quantities of beer and an even more abundant supply of Georgian euphemisms for “everyone got extremely drunk”
Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskRoyal jubilees are odd sorts of celebrations. Unlike most royal events—such as weddings, coronations or funerals, all of which mark change of some kind—a jubilee is a marker of mere stasis. It celebrates the fact that the current monarch has stayed alive for a prolonged period of time. This might sound underwhelming but it is a feat that most English monarchs have failed to achieve.
Look through the reports of past jubilees and it becomes clear that each has its own flavour. Whereas the jubilee of George III involved getting heroically drunk, in the era of Victoria the mood became notably more Victorian. In 1887 this paper reflected on the celebrations for that queen’s Golden Jubilee and was well satisfied by what it saw. The English, the author observed, had hitherto been a “rough, turbulent and brutal” lot but they had improved.
At the queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977, to celebrate her 25th year on the throne, the prevailing mood was more curmudgeonly. The Mass Observation Project set out to take the temperature of the nation—and found it chilly. “People are not in the mood,” said one woman, bluntly. In Scotland, Mass Observation reported, there was “total apathy”. In Bath one local observed that “The Royal Family leave me cold. I couldn’t care less either way.
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