ABSTRACT

This chapter considers royal events in the late Victorian era, after Prince Albert’s death, and the early Edwardian era. We focus on a number of key public events – the royal weddings of the Princess Royal and the Prince of Wales, the ceremony of thanksgiving in 1872, the jubilees in 1887 and 1897 and the coronation and funeral of King Edward VII. It contains an analysis of the revival of many ceremonial aspects of monarchy during this period, which continued under the next generation.