Queen Victoria replaced him. Salisbury remained prime minister for the remainder of Victoria's reign. On 23 September 1896, Victoria surpassed her grandfather George III as the longest-reigning monarch in British history. The Queen requested that any special celebrations be delayed until 1897, to coincide with her Diamond Jubilee, which was made a festival of the British Empire at the suggestion of the Colonial Secretary, Joseph Chamberlain. The prime ministers of all the self-governing Dominions were invited to London for the festivities. One reason for including the prime ministers of the Dominions and excluding foreign heads of state was to avoid having to
Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria UK Top 40 hits. Canadian singer Leonard Cohen refers to her in a mostly non-factual way in his 1964 poem "Queen Victoria and Me", and again in the 1972 song "Queen Victoria" (based on the poem). The song was later covered by Welsh musician John Cale. In 2006, the Comics Sherpa online comic service started carrying a comic strip titled "The New Adventures of Queen Victoria" using cut-out photographs and portraits of the Queen and others. In the Japanese anime and manga series "Kuroshitsuji" ("Black Butler"); she appears as Ciel Phantomhive's primary boss. Queen Victoria's reign features in the 2003