Benjamin Disraeli persuaded Queen Victoria to not use the title "Empress of Great Britain, Ireland and India" and use the title "Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India" to avoid controversy. What controversy it would have caused? Was it avoided?

by Noor-E-Khuda

Also how did it help Disraeli's political career? How did his contemporaries and opposition react to it

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Follow up question: by precedent set in the Act of Supremacy, Parliament declared that the King of England held the translatio imperii, so why was no King of England ever crowned Emperor?