Her Majesty's Ministry, front and back of a promotional card for Huntley & Palmers Biscuits,...

Illustration depicts an imaginary Victorian British Cabinet about to have a biscuit break; the profile of the politician standing on the right resembles the Prime Minister, Gladstone; Huntley and Palmers was a British firm of biscuit manufacturers, founded in 1822; they became biscuit suppliers to Queen Victoria and by 1865 expanded into Europe, receiving additional royal warrants from Napoleon III and King Leopold II of Belgium; by 1900 they were the world's largest biscuit producer and had become one of the earliest global brands; their easily recognisable tins and logo were a very successful marketing tool and became a symbol of the worldwide commercial power of the British Empire; appropriately for one of Queen Victoria's Governments, the biscuits to be consumed are of the variety known as 'Queens';