Roman Styran | Extracts of English newspapers’ reports on Queen Victoria's Jubilee of 1897 - Read by John Gielgud @RomanStyran | Uploaded October 2015 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Extracts of English newspapers’ reports on Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897.

G. W. Steevens, Daily Mai, June of 1897:
How many millions of years has the sun stood in the heaven? But it never looked down until yesterday upon the embodiment of so much energy and power.
Diamond jubilee of 1897 was a pageant which for splendor of appearance has never been paralleled in the history of the world.

The Times, June of 1897:
History may be searched and searched in vain to discover so wonderful an exhibition of allegiance and brotherhood amongst so many myriads of men... The mightiest and most beneficial Empire
ever known in the annals of mankind.

Read by Sir John Gielgud.

This recording is an excerpt from 'We Were Happy There' by Allan Bennet recorded by MCA Records Ltd. in 1969.

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