Talk:May Queen

Vanity Fair?
Is it not highly vain to post a picture of oneself on a fact-based encyclopaedia such as this? As it is in my mind. Why does she not go all-out and say THE Recent and Most Glorious May Queen, Her Highness Eleanor Teasdale" in the caption! --Leowatkins 18:29, 20 April 2006 (UTC)


 * Maybe, but it is a useful picture on this article - though a wider angle would be good. Thehalfone (talk) 15:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Oldest
I suspect many May Queen festivals claim to be the oldest. Citation for Brentham's claim? Dave.Dunford 09:11, 13 May 2006 (UTC)

Split

 * Proposal to split article into two, one article to present the minimal information content on "May Queen" as a mythological figure and the other two present a less general content on "May Queen". There is a claim that the two subjects are related but, at best, they can only be related in locations where both concepts are relevant.  Gregkaye (talk) 06:55, 5 August 2014 (UTC)
 * There's nothing in the article about a mythical figure apart from the first sentence. I don't see what there is to split. Bhny (talk) 17:28, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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Hayfield May Queen Festival the oldest
We'd probably need a better reference than a defunct link to hayfield.uk.net. As it appears to have been founded in 1928 and there are numerous older festivals I'll remove this statement unless anyone objects. Catfish Jim and the soapdish (talk) 12:48, 15 May 2021 (UTC)

Possible conflation?
The article seems to have mixed the two concepts of Queen of the May (the tree Prunus Padus) which has roots to pre-historic times in British Celtic folklore (cf. Robert Graves' The White Queen and Frazer's The Golden Bough) with the modern day May Queen celebrations which derive from it. The fact that the time of the celebration is also in the month of May hasn't helped. Jatrius (talk) 18:37, 17 April 2023 (UTC)