British royal ceremonial reinvented as grand spectacle
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- The Invention of Tradition (Canto Classics) whole source · open book
The second, beginning in 1877, when Victoria was made empress of India, and extending until the outbreak of the First World War was, in Britain as in much of Europe, the heyday of ‘invented tradition’
chapter: 4 The Context, Performance and Meaning of Ritual : The British Monarchy and The ‘Invention of Tradition’, c. 1820–1977