Sunday, December 17, 2006

Tea Chest & Tea Pot


Tamara's brochure information continues on. . .

. . .Although tea and tea drinking had become widely popular well before Victoria's reign, legend has it that one of the queen's ladies-in-waiting created "afternoon teatime". Tea mania had spread across England following the arrival of Portuguese Catherine of Braganza who brought her own tea chest with her in 1662 as queen consort to King Charles II. From that time on, tea gained popularity, first among the upper classes, then among the people at large.


1 comment:

  1. It makes me want to learn to like tea. lol When the girls and I had our tea party, we had orange juice in it. lol Shhh... ;0)

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