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St. Albans Pageant, 1907: Queen Elizabeth at Gorhambury.

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Dover Pageant
Dover’s staging of a historical folk-play in 1908 was a nationally important and spectacular example of an Edwardian town gripped by ‘pageantitis’. Directed by the original master himself, Louis Na...
Oxford Pageant of Victory
From the book of words and its references to several hundred participants in some scenes, this appears to have been a very large pageant, and was one of a number held in the aftermath of the First ...
Windsor Children’s Historical Pageant
Children’s pageants were popular from the outset. Some, of course, were staged by schools: one early example was Kingston Grammar School, which put on a pageant to celebrate its six-hundredth anniv...

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1 Windsor, Berkshire, England
1 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
1 Dover, Kent, England

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1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Everett, Rev. Bernard
1 Bergerac, Bernice de

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3 Shakespeare, William
1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Tennyson, Alfred Lord
1 Street, E.
1 Spenser, Edmund
1 Rhoades, James
1 Rawnsley, F.A.
1 Petrarch, Francesco
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Malory, Thomas
1 Geddes, H.R.
1 Fuller, M.
1 Everett, Rev. Bernard
1 Dryden, John
1 Crum, Reverend J.M.C.
1 Burrows, Ione
1 Binyon, Laurence
1 Bergerac, Bernice de
1 Anson, Miss

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1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Tiercelin, Louis
1 Tidnam, J. Edis
1 Taylor, H.J.
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Gibbons, Orlando
1 Everett, Rev. Bernard
1 Elgar, Edward

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3 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
2 Henry V
2 Edward I
2 Charles VI
2 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
2 Arthur
1 Íte ingen Chinn Fhalad [M' Íte; Deirdre; Ita]
1 Wykeham, William of Winchester, administrator, and founder of Winchester College and New College, Oxford
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Stigand
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Shakespeare, William and poet
1 Sackville, Thomas, first Baron Buckhurst and first earl of Dorset
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart] Aquitaine, and count of Anjou
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Rich, Henry, first earl of Holland
1 Puiset, Hugh du, earl of Northumberland
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Philip the Good
1 Petrarch, Francesco
1 Pencester [Penchester, Penshurst], Sir Stephen of
1 Patrick [St Patrick, Pádraig]
1 Orso, Count of Anguillara
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Mortimer, Roger
1 Mary I
1 Margaret [St Margaret]
1 Malcolm III [Mael Coluim Ceann Mór, Malcolm Canmore]
1 Longchamp, William de and bishop of Ely
1 Laud, William of Canterbury
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 John [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford
1 John
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Isabella of Portugal
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester [called Good Duke Humphrey]
1 Henry VIII
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France] consort of Charles I
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Greville, Fulke, first Baron Brooke of Beauchamps Court
1 Giffard, Walter
1 George [St George]
1 Fordham, John
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Eustace
1 Elizabeth I England and Ireland
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine and queen of England, consort of Henry II
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward III England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 David [St David, Dewi]
1 Clare, Gilbert de [called Gilbert the Red], seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey and administrator
1 Charles V
1 Charles I England, Scotland, and Ireland
1 Charles I
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Berengaria [Berengaria of Navarre]
1 Beauchamp, Richard, thirteenth earl of Warwick
1 Andrew [St Andrew]

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