Fading Empire and the 1897 Diamond Jubilee

Fading Empire and the 1897 Diamond Jubilee

Available on Prime Video, The Great Courses Signature Collection
S1 E11: Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee of 1897 celebrates 60 years of the monarch's rule; Deslandes highlights what this sort of celebration reveals about London, its royals and its citizens; what it intends to obscure about the British Empire's decline.