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Charles Earl Grey and "Tea Connection"

For more than a century, the historians of the tea believed that the British aristocrat Charles Earl Grey, the Prime Minister of England from 1830 till 1834, was the one who introduced the earl grey tea into the lounges of London. 
According to the history, he would have received this blending and distinctive tea as a present and would then have shared him with friends and notables close to Queen Victoria. 
The original mixture contained some black China tea assembled with some oil of bergamot orange.
Another version of the history tells that the assembly had been given by a Chinese dignitary, a tea which it had particularly formulated to mask the taste of lime.

Count Earl Grey and tea: the truth or the fiction?

Certain doubts remain on this story: no report exists to verify that Charles Earl Grey never travelled in China. 
Furthermore we can doubt that Chinese can have access to the period in bergamot orange.
The historic documents of the beginning of 1800s suggest that the certain manufacturers of tea were able to used the bergamot orange to disguise the defects of down-market tea which they could so charge at the highest possible price. This practice increases the reasonable doubt that an English aristocrat was able to associate his name with a doubtful product.

The Oxford dictionary of English examines the black tea Earl Grey

In 2012, the Dictionary of Oxford throws a public call in an attempt to discover the real origins of the black tea earl grey perfumed of bergamot orange. This approach licence to dig up interesting data but did not allow to arrive at a definitive conclusion. 
According to the revelations of this study, that this threatens even to cut the long-time link between Count Charles Earl Grey and black tea which bears its name. 
Some speculate what is more it is William Grey, a trader of tea of London that advertised for its earl grey mixture (certain publications seem to give evidence of him which produced the popular mixture).

Today, a multitude of black tea earl grey is available, certain containing of the lavender and leaves of green tea. 
A variant known as the Lady Earl Grey contains of the lemon and some orange peel of Seville besides the essence of bergamot orange.