Primrose Day

Primrose Day marked the anniversary of the death of the British statesman and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, on 19 April 1881.

The primrose was reportedly Disraeli's favourite flower, and the queen would send him bunches of them from Windsor Castle and Osborne House.

[2][3] However, a few years later, a letter from the Queen's Private Secretary, Sir Henry Ponsonby, contradicted that suggestion.

[7] In 1916, Pathé News recorded commemorative events, with a wreath laid at Disraeli's statue outside Westminster Palace.

[8] Pathé recorded similar events through the 1920s, including Austen Chamberlain in 1921, Sir William Joynson-Hicks in 1923, and Diana Churchill in 1928.