The Sole Exception –A Brewer is
the Only Tradesman Permitted to Dine with Queen Victoria
It is a strange rule that in England a successful brewer is regarded with affection by the Sovereign, and may dine with her after he has become wealthy. No other tradesman or manufacturer is allowed a similar privilege, nor is ever ennobled. Beer is regarded as fondly as poetry by the aristocracy of the country. It applauds when the laureate is created Lord Tennyson, and exults when an Irish brewer is made Lord Iveagh. There is a wide range of intellectual appreciation in this that is startling but admirable. It is hoped that Tennyson will write an ode commemorative of the beauty of the scheme before he dies.”— Chicago Herald, 1891
Etiquette Enthusiast, Maura J. Graber, is the Site Editor for the Etiquipedia© Etiquette Encyclopedia
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