Picture No | 10004279 |
Date | 19 April 1900 |
Description | Primrose Day 1900 |
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Primrose Day in Parliament Square, London, is the anniversary of the death of British statesman and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, on 19 April 1881. The primrose was his favourite flower and Queen Victoria would often send him bunches of them from Windsor and Osborne House.
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Source | Photograph in 'Living London', volume III, page 42 |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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