Benjamin Disraeli
Past display archive
13 January - 15 August 2010
Room 25 case display
Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
by (Cornelius) Jabez Hughes
22 July 1878
NPG x665
Unlike her relations with Gladstone, Victoria valued Disraeli highly and had even objected to his departure to Berlin for, ‘he is the wise head and hand that rules the Government and my great support and comfort…his health and life are of immense value to me and the country and should on no account be risked’. On his return she made him Knight of the Garter and offered him a dukedom which he declined. These photographs record the occasion.