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 Evan_Th

/u/Noor-E-Khuda originally asked this a month ago, and I was very interested, but it didn't get any answers then.

RiceandBeansandChees

Hi OP, not related to the other commenter but I did find this answer from u/WhenTheRvlutionComes:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1qydwx/why_were_british_monarchs_not_referred_to_as/cdhvnsq/?utm_content=permalink&utm_medium=front&utm_source=reddit&utm_name=AskHistorians

The succinct part of the comment:

For one thing, it would inevitably raise suspicions of an attempt to instate absolute monarchy, which is antithetical to British tradition. It was, to some degree, fine to rule as Empress in a faraway colony, it wouldn't necessarily be acceptable to try to be Empress of Britain. Claiming the title in India also had more legitimacy than it would have in Britain, as the previous Mughals had ruled as more less "emperors", and Victoria was ruling over rajas, which are effectively equivalent to Kings, and an Emperor is, in one sense, a King of King. As well, India had a vast territorial extent and diversity compared to Britain.