How did tea become so popular in Great Britain?

Question

And when did that start?
Tell me everything you know..

I have to do a presentation about tea in Great Britain..

And i'm German

Answer 1

Catherine of Braganza brought the custom of "taking a dish of tea" with her from Portugaul when she married Charles II. She married Charles by proxy on April 23, 1662 & arrived in England on May 14, 1662. Intially, she was an upopular queen (because she was a Catholic) but once the people saw how kind, quiet & devoted to her husband (even though her had multiple mistresses) she was they began to accept her, I would imagine at that time tea started to become the "in thing". Charles' neices, Mary & Anne both drank tea when they were queen, that along with the English hold in India helped to make tea so popular in England.

Answer 2

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How did tea become so popular in Great Britain?
And when did that start?
Tell me everything you know..

Answer 3

I can tell you that workers before the industrial revolution drank tea out of very poor quality china cups and they found that if you put some milk in the cup then it wouldn't crack. Poland had wooden cups and therefore didn't need to put milk in the cup, from this we can suppose that Polish people drink black tea. I am sure that there is a good article on Wikipedia about tea.

Answer 4

When you do your presentation, you may want to include the fantastic story of how an Englishman (the English) went to China, purchased tea plants from the common Chinese people, and smuggled the tea plants (the Emperor had forbidden it) out of China. Then the plants were taken to India and transplanted. Now, India produces the best Darjeeling and Assam teas in the world! I know, because I drink Twinings and Taylor's of Harrogate!

Answer 5

I guess a lot of it had to with the times of Empire when the likes of Ceylon etc were under British rule and as such huge tea plantations were owned and managed by Brits. I am pretty sure though that tea would have been imported even before then from when the great trade routes from the east were opened up. The British again in those days as the worlds main sea fairing race would have done a lot of trading and importing from all over the globe, including the teas from India, Far East etc. A lot of the first westerners to settle and deal with the old region of Cathay, Japan and so on were the British.

Tea however is widely liked all over the world and is far from restricted to the black version that we generally drink in the UK.

Answer 6

The wife of Charles 2nd,The Infanta De Castille,helped to popularise tea drinking.

Answer 7

Anglican Christianity. At one time, they were part of the Catholic Church, but, when the Pope refused to annul King Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragorn, so that he could marry Anne Boleyne, he broke away & started his own Church.

Answer 8

I wonder about this too, I suppose it must have happened when they started to travel all over the world and learnt about the wonders of world..

Answer 9

It has been a staple there for centuries. Coffee was only introduced a few hundred years ago, when it was imported from the middle east.

Answer 10

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