This largely transformed the dissatisfaction felt by the public towards the monarchy. This also combatted the feelings that the monarchy weren’t “earning their keep.” Queen Victoria also propelled Britain onto the world stage and made it appear a very powerful country and empire as is suggested by the attendance to her golden jubilee “featured the attendance of representatives from all over the British Empire: Indian rajahs, Burmese mandarins, tribal chieftains from Africa, and colonial governors from all over the world” which implies that she had magnified the power of the British empire, especially in comparison to queen Elizabeth I who had started the empire but hadn’t put in such powerful of a position as Victoria had. However the British Empire had been accused of overusing the power they had gained from the expansion of the empire In the Boer war “many foreign powers criticized the British as well for what seemed to be an unnecessary stretching of imperial muscle.” On the other hand, Turnball suggested that Victoria’s son, Edward played an important role in foreign relations after his father’s