London Trivia: More than just tea

On 7 June 1832 the British Reform Act received royal assent and became law. The Act, pressed through by Prime Minister Earl Grey, forestalled a revolution by increasing the number of people who were eligible to vote. The Act created 67 new constituencies and broadened the qualification to vote to include small landowners, tenant farmers, and shopkeepers. Earl Grey tea was later named after the Prime Minister. On 7 June 1977 more than one million people lined the streets of London to watch the Royal Family on their way to St Paul’s at the start of the Queen’s Silver Jubilee celebrations An unrepealed law from 1313 makes it illegal to wear a suit of armour when entering The Houses of Parliament The oldest apartments in London the Albany, Piccadilly founded in 1770 were until recently bachelor only accommodation and banned women Measurements of skeletons at Christ Church Spitalfields are shorter on average than their medieval forebears probably caused by pollution Her Majesty The Queen…