In this feud, Disraeli was aided by his warm friendship with Queen Victoria, who came to detest Gladstone during the latter's first premiership in the 1870s.

New Crowns for Old depicts Disraeli as Abanazer from the pantomime version of Aladdin offering Queen Victoria | Victoria an imperial crown in exchange for a royal one. Disraeli cultivated a public image of himself as an Imperialist with grand gestures such as conferring on Queen Victoria the title “ Empress of India ”.

A leading proponent of the Great Game, Disraeli introduced the Royal Titles Act 1876, which created Queen Victoria Empress of India, putting her at the same level as the Russian Tsar.

Disraeli was elevated to the House of Lords in 1876 when Queen Victoria made him Earl of Beaconsfield and Viscount Hughenden.

There is also a memorial to Disraeli in the chancel in the church, erected in his honour by Queen Victoria.

The government led by Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, conferred the additional title upon her by an Act of Parliament, reputedly to assuage the monarch's irritation at being, as a mere Queen, notionally inferior to her own daughter ( Princess Victoria was the wife of the reigning German Emperor ); the Indian Imperial designation was also formally justified as the expression of Britain succeeding as paramount ruler of the subcontinent the former Mughal ' Padishah of Hind ', using indirect rule through hundreds of princely states formally under protection, not colonies, but accepting the British Sovereign as their suzerain.

Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli cultivated a public image as an Imperialist with grand gestures such as conferring on Queen Victoria | Victoria the title “ Empress of India ”.

Disraeli, who expanded the Empire to protect British interests abroad, cultivated the image of himself ( and the Conservative Party ) as " Imperialist ", making grand gestures such as conferring the title " Empress of India " on Queen Victoria in 1876.

His moralism often angered his upper-class opponents ( including Queen Victoria, who strongly favoured Disraeli ), and his heavy-handed control split the Liberal party.

Gladstone is famous for his oratory, for his rivalry with the Conservative Leader Benjamin Disraeli and his poor relations with Queen Victoria, who once complained, " He always addresses me as if I were a public meeting.

* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed Empress of India by the Royal Titles Act 1876, introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Benjamin Disraeli and Queen Victoria, during the latter's visit to Hughenden Manor.

In a letter to Queen Victoria, Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli proposed " to clear Central Asia of Muscovites and drive them into the Caspian ".

British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli and Queen Victoria

Disraeli saw British control of the Suez Canal and named Queen Victoria the Empress of India.

New Crowns for Old depicts Prime Minister Disraeli offering Queen Victoria an imperial crown as " Empress " in exchange for an Earl's coronet.

It was created in 1876 for Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli, a favourite of Queen Victoria.

In 1878, Disraeli refused Queen Victoria's offer to make him a duke, accepting instead membership in the Order of the Garter.

Benjamin Disraeli and Queen Victoria

Symbolic overtures, in fact, such as Queen Victoria's grandiose title " Empress of India ", celebrated during the second premiership of Benjamin Disraeli in the 1870s, helped to obscure this fact.

His maiden speech, delivered in his first session, prompted compliments from Harcourt and Disraeli, who wrote to the Queen of Churchill's ' energy and natural flow '.

Billy Connolly stars as Brown and Dame Judi Dench as Victoria, with Antony Sher appearing as Benjamin Disraeli.

Before and during his political career, Disraeli was well known as a literary and social figure, although his novels are not generally regarded as a part of the Victorian literary canon.

In the 1874 general election Gladstone was defeated by the Conservatives under Disraeli during a sharp economic recession.

The title was first referred to on government documents during the administration of Benjamin Disraeli but did not appear in the formal British Order of precedence until 1905.

Disraeli became overall Conservative leader during 1868, although, when Prime Minister, he did not attempt to reintroduce protectionism.

Benjamin Disraeli and William Ewart Gladstone, as leaders of Great Britain's Conservative and Liberal parties, respectively, served as Prime Ministers during the later years of Great Britain's era of reform.

Nevertheless, during the marriage Terry made the acquaintance of a number of cultured and important and talented people, among them Browning, Tennyson, Gladstone, Disraeli and the photographer Julia Margaret Cameron.

Hugh McCalmont Cairns, 1st Earl Cairns PC, QC ( 27 December 1819 – 2 April 1885 ) was a British statesman who served as Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom during the first two ministries of Benjamin Disraeli.

It was visited by Gladstone and Disraeli and was the home of the British military's Joint Service Defence College during the twentieth century.

His son, Charles Herries, was appointed Chairman of the Board of Inland Revenue by Disraeli during the latter's second premiership in 1877.

In 1881 he was asked by Queen Victoria to attend prime minister Benjamin Disraeli during his last few days.

France was also the first country to elect a Jewish Prime Minister, Léon Blum ( Benjamin Disraeli, Britain's 19th century Prime Minister, had Jewish parents but had been baptised in the Church of England ), during the Popular Front in 1936.

Splendid Isolation is a popular conception of the foreign policy pursued by Britain during the late 19th century, under the Conservative premierships of Benjamin Disraeli and the Marquess of Salisbury.

The suburb was named after Benjamin Disraeli, Lord Beaconsfield, a British prime minister during the reign of Queen Victoria.

Not until the 1860s would Derby and Disraeli be on easy terms, and the latter's succession of the former assured.

These visits enabled him to meet and take the measure of his adversaries Napoleon III, and the British Prime Minister Palmerston and Foreign Secretary Earl Russell, and also of the British Conservative politician Disraeli, later to be Prime Minister in the 1870s – who later claimed to have said of Bismarck's visit " Be careful of that man – he means every word he says ".

Even as these intrigues played out, Disraeli was working with the Bentinck family to secure the necessary financing to purchase Hughenden Manor, in Buckinghamshire.

The Disraeli family tomb, Hughenden

She is buried with Disraeli in a vault in the Church of St Michael and All Angels Church, Hughenden in the Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, close to the Disraeli family home, Hughenden Manor.

The Disraelis died without direct heirs and their titles became extinct ; Hughenden Manor passed to Lord Beaconsfield's nephew Coningsby Ralph Disraeli.

In the Victorian era the town was the home constituency of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom in 1868 and then again from 1874 until 1880 ( in fact his home, Hughenden Manor is in the nearby town of High Wycombe ).

Benjamin Disraeli ( later Earl of Beaconsfield ) lived at Hughenden Manor, a Georgian mansion, altered by the Disraelis when they purchased it in 1848.

He and his wife Mary Anne Disraeli, alternated between Hughenden and several homes in London.

Disraeli had no children ; he left Hughenden to his nephew, Coningsby.

* Hughenden Manor, a mansion in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, home of Benjamin Disraeli

It was named after Hughenden Manor, the home of former British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli.