The year 1887 The United Kingdom spent on celebrating the Golden Jubilee of 50 years reign of Queen Victoria. The main ceremony was held on June 20, 1887 At the banquet on this occasion invited many representatives of European ruling houses. The Irish nationalist circles was born, a plan to blow up Westminster Abbey when the Queen will give thanks for 50 years of rule. When plans for the bombers were detected, the plot was defined as a "jubilee". June 21 the Queen attended the procession, which, in the words of Mark Twain, stretched out of sight in which direction would you look. At that time Victoria was a popular monarch. Rumors associated with her secret marriage subsided after the death of Brown in 1883, Victoria became the symbol of morality.
The Queen was forced to tolerate the administration of how to lose weight fast after another attempt, failed, moreover, the introduction of the principle of Home Rule Ireland, Gladstone passed away in 1894, retired and was replaced by the imperialist-driven liberal, Lord Rosebery. His government lasted until 1895, when Prime Minister was the third time, Lord Salisbury, who remained in that position for the rest of the Victoria Government.
September 22, 1896, the Victoria surpassed her grandfather George III and became the longest-ruling British monarch. The queen, however, instructed to move the ceremony on this occasion for the year 1897, when she was celebrating its diamond jubilee. Minister for the Colonies in the office of Salisbury, Joseph Chamberlain, proposed that the jubilee was celebrated throughout the British Empire.
Invitation to the ceremony were given self-governing colonies of all prime ministers together with their families. The procession, in which participated the Queen, also participated troops from all the British colonies and dependencji, together with the Indian army przysłanymi princes and rajas', subordinate to Victoria as Empress of India. The Jubilee was a chance to express their feelings towards the almost 80-year-old monarch, who moved during the ceremony in a wheelchair.
Some historians argue that the occasion of the jubilee of Victoria founded the white dress, this once abandoned his usual black outfit that she wore on her husband's death.