Nannie Tout’s Divine Deliverance from Serving Tea at Buckingham Palace
Published October 17, 2026 at 9:07 PM
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While at Buckingham Palace in March 1904, Nannie Tout was invited to an afternoon meal referred to as 'tea.' Fearing the social pressure to consume forbidden drinks, she suffered until the moment arrived. She successfully declined the offered drink and requested hot water with milk and sugar, feeling that she had successfully conquered the temptation.
In Their Own Words
“I must admit that this 'tea' made me more nervous than the singing did. I knew that I would be offered some of the forbidden drinks and the question which worried me was whether or not to take for this once what would be offered. True, I had always refused these things, but here I was in the palace of the King of England. Why should I make a spectacle of myself? I just suffered for a time under the strain; but when, at last, the tea came, and I said 'No, thank you,' I knew I had conquered; and from that time it was easy to say 'No, thank you' to the many offers of something to drink. I accepted a cup of hot water, with milk and sugar, and felt at ease in so doing—though it would be interesting to know what the lords and ladies around me thought.”
— Nannie Tout, 'Nannie Tout in London'
Sources & References
The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 15 no. 9 (September 1904). L. Tom Perry Special Collections, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University digital collections. https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/12656 (account extracted verbatim from the collection's page-level OCR; research confidence: high) Full first-person account: The Young Woman's Journal, vol. 15 no. 9 (September 1904), page 405 https://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/digital/collection/YWJ/id/12656
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