A photo of a May Queen crowning ceremony which took queues from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poem "The May Queen" in which the titular character dies after being crowned May Queen.

"For I ’m to be Queen o’ the May, mother, I ’m to be Queen o’ the May."  -Alfred, Lord Tennyson "The May Queen"

Source: http://www.victorianweb.org/photos/cameron/1.html

Date

1866

Artist

Julia Margaret Cameron
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