A History of Royal Jubilees

Historic Royal Palaces Podcast

Historic Royal Palaces

London, Palace, Tower, Historic, Conservation, Royal, Lecture, Learning, Kensington, Hampton, Kew, Banqueting, History, Court, Of, House, Palaces

4.6 • 635 Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode, we celebrate Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee with a rip-roaring tour of the history of Royal Jubilees. Join Curators Charles Farris, Joanna Marschner and Lee Prosser as they find out what it takes to make an iconic Jubilee celebration. To find out more about Superbloom at the Tower of London and other Jubilee celebrations at Historic Royal Palaces visit hrp.org.uk

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Historic Royal Palaces podcast, the podcast that explores the history and stories of our six palaces.
0:15.0	My name is Charles Farris and I'm a curator at Historic Royal Palaces.
0:20.0	Today we'll be grabbing our Royal Memorabilia biscuit tin, along with a cup of tea, to delve
0:25.1	into the history of the truly iconic, and at times slightly extra, Jubilee celebrations.
0:31.6	It's a particularly special episode, as I'm sure you all know, as this year we celebrate the platinum jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen,
0:39.3	marking 70 years of service of Britain's longest reigning monarch.
0:43.3	To help me talk about Jubilees today, I'm joined by two very wonderful curators from historic royal palaces.
0:50.3	Firstly, we have the Queen of Jubilee memorabilia herself, Joanna Marshner.
0:55.0	Joanna is a senior curator based at Kensington Palace and an expert on the Georgian court,
1:00.4	women at court and particularly the reign of Queen Victoria.
1:04.0	Hello Joanna, how are you today?
1:05.8	Hello, Charlie.
1:07.1	Well, I've been delving into the family collections and I've brought along a range of memorabilia and we'll be discussing this later.
1:16.0	Yeah, I can see. I can't wait to start looking at some of these treasures later on.
1:20.2	Also joining us is Lee. Lee Prosser is a buildings curator particularly interested in staircases, roofs and floors with a
1:29.4	particular sideline in protective marks. Hello, Lee. Thank you for joining us. Hello, Charlie.
1:35.0	That doesn't make me sound nerdy at all, does it? But I do like being described as wonderful.
1:40.4	I'm going to talk about Georgian jubilees, hopefully, a little bit. I can't say that I'm the expert,
1:45.8	but I know a bit about the subject. Well, wonderful. It's definitely accurate. So to kick us off,
1:50.9	we're going to start with the basics. I'll explain what a jubilee is, and then Joanna and Lee,
1:55.2	you can tell me why you think we celebrate them. First, what it is. A jubilee is a celebration
2:00.3	and commemoration of an
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