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Since the onset of COVID, sales and consumption of tea have jumped
This may be the perfect winter to revive the ritual of afternoon tea, given that it was invented for precisely the circumstances many now find themselves in having too much time at home on their hands.
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It was in the first half of the 1800s that the Duchess of Bedford a lifelong chum of Queen Victoria dreamed up the idea of fitting in another meal to fill the tedious hours especially slow on dreary days between lunch and a fashionably late dinner.