Primrose Day

The Primrose Day ( Primrose day) was committed to the First World War annually in memory of the death of Benjamin Disraeli, the novelist and two-time Prime Minister, on 19 April 1881. On this day his grave were decorated at Hughenden Manor in Buckinghamshire and its built 1883 statue in Parliament Square in London with primroses. The Primrose was in fact Disraeli's favorite flower, so he sent Queen Victoria often primroses bundle of Windsor Castle, and her estate Osborne House. Even at his funeral in 1881 she let make a knotted from primrose wreath.

On the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of Disraeli in 1882 was among his followers wearing a primrose as a proclamation of affection and grief. The following year, the resignation of containers and wreaths came under the newly erected statue and other monuments Disraeli added as a cult gesture. End of 1883 Primrose League was founded, the most Primrose Day organized from now on their own ceremonies and memorial decorations took over. Finally, the Primrose Day was to show a popular theme in painting as painting by Frank Bramley, Ralph Todd and Fred Hall. These mostly young grieving girl were shown sitting with primroses under a picture of Disraeli. It was only from 1917 was found under the statue of Disraeli only a simple wreath.

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