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Detail showing Queen Victoria drinking tea at a Buckingham Palace Garden party
Tea in the Royal Collection

The ritual of tea drinking as represented in the Royal Collection

ENGLISH

Tea chest

1892

RCIN 84563

This miniature tea chest contains the first sample of tea grown in England.  It is accompanied by a letter indicating that it was presented to Queen Victoria by the Ceylon Tea Company on 22 December 1892.

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