The story of Queen Victoria and a summer of celebrations for her golden jubilee. A series of events had been planned to commemorate this on June 20th the precise day she had first mounted the throne. The royal heads of europe indian princes dignitaries and representatives from all corners of the empire converged upon london west end shopkeepers adorned their windows in red white and blue royal standards, union jacks festoons of flowers and colored garlands could be seen hanging from every somber stony edifice.