nowadays afternoon tea or low tea is a rare occasion, due to the lack of time in modern society. but in the 18th century, wealthy women would meet up at around 4 p.m. and drink tea together. made the afternoon tea fashionable, because of her unregulated dinner time she would drink a cup of tea severed with bread and butter, in the afternoon as a dinner replacement. the afternoon tea was extremely popular among her and her royal friends, so they also held their own afternoon tea ceremony.