A fond tradition arose in the lifetime of
Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, Queen Victoria’s two-time
Prime Minister, namely that of his receiving flowers, often
primroses from the Queen. To Disraeli, Queen Victoria was the
‘Faery’ – his endearing name for his Sovereign, whatever the
intention of Edmund Spenser’s epic poem Faerie Queene. Disraeli
told his friend, Lady Bradford, that…
