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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Pageant of London
The Pageant of London was the main attraction of the Festival of Empire at Crystal Palace in 1911. Undoubtedly the largest and most ambitious pageant of the Edwardian period, if not the whole twent...
Historical Pageant of Huntingdonshire
Huntingdon had not held a pageant since the wildly successful pageant at Hinchingbrooke in 1912, though there had been further pageants in the county (e.g., Buckden, 1932). Hinchingbrooke House.1 T...
The Pageant of Empire
The Pageant of Empire took place over the course of a wet six weeks in July and August 1924 in the huge newly-constructed concrete Wembley Stadium. It was just one attraction of the monumental Brit...

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Composer: Byrd, William
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3 Elizabeth I
3 Cromwell, Oliver
2 Wolsey, Thomas
2 Roe, Sir Thomas
2 Pepys, Samuel
2 James II and VII
2 Jahangir
2 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
2 Henry VIII
2 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
2 George III
2 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
2 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
2 Drake, Sir Francis
2 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
2 Cook, James
2 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
2 Charles II
2 Charles I
2 Cabot, Sebastian
2 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
2 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
2 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Óláf [Óláfr] Tryggvason
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Ælfwig
1 arausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Wykeham, William
1 Wyatt, Sir Henry
1 Wulfstan
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Wodelarke, Robert
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Wilson, Allan
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Waynflete [Wainfleet, Patten], William
1 Warham, William
1 Walworth, Sir William
1 Walsingham, Sir Francis
1 Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford
1 Waldegrave, William, first Baron Radstock
1 Wakefield, William Hayward
1 Villiers, George, second duke of Buckingham
1 Villiers [married name Stuart], Mary, duchess of Lennox and Richmond
1 Urswick, Christopher
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Turpin, Richard [Dick]
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert
1 Tuke, Sir Brian
1 Tudor, Jasper [Jasper of Hatfield], duke of Bedford
1 Tuck, Friar
1 Tomlinson [Thomlinson], Matthew, appointed Lord Tomlinson under the protectorate
1 Thorkell the Tall [Þorkill inn Hávi], earl of East Anglia
1 The Earl of Warwick
1 The Earl of Oxford
1 Sutton, Sir Richard
1 Sudbury, Simon
1 Stuart, Esmé, third duke of Lennox
1 Starkey, Sir Humphrey
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir William
1 Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
1 Stanley, Edward, first Baron Monteagle
1 Standish, Myles
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 St Pol, Mary de, countess of Pembroke
1 Spencer, Sir John
1 Speke, John Hanning
1 Somerset, Edward, fourth earl of Worcester
1 Solander, Daniel
1 Smythe [Smith], Sir Thomas
1 Smith, Sir Thomas
1 Smith, John
1 Smith, Donald Alexander, first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
1 Smith [Smyth], William
1 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Shaka
1 Scott, Robert Falcon [known as Scott of the Antarctic]
1 Scoresby, William, junior
1 Russell [née Harington], Lucy, countess of Bedford
1 Rodney, George Bridges, first Baron Rodney
1 Robert, count of Mortain
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
1 Richard III
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Rhodes, Cecil John
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Raffles, Sir
1 Radcliffe [née Sidney], Frances, countess of Sussex
1 Poynings, Sir Edward
1 Pope, Sir Thomas
1 Pole, Sir Charles Morice
1 Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe]
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Parker, Sir Peter, first baronet
1 Park, Mungo
1 Orde, Sir John, first baronet
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Nugent, Sir Charles Edmund
1 Norris [Norreys], Sir John
1 Nias, Sir Joseph
1 Newland [Nailheart], John
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Morton, John
1 Morgan, Sir Henry
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Montagu [Mountagu], Edward, first earl of Sandwich
1 Monck [Monk], George, first duke of Albemarle
1 Mildmay, Sir Walter
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 Merton, Walter of
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
1 Marconi, Guglielmo
1 MacDonnell [née Manners; other married name Villiers], Katherine, duchess of Buckingham and marchioness of Antrim
1 Lumley, John, fifth Baron Lumley
1 Lovell, Francis, Viscount Lovell
1 Longland, John
1 Livingstone, David
1 Lionel [Lionel of Antwerp], duke of Clarence
1 Ligonier, Edward [Francis Edward], Earl Ligonier of Clonmell
1 Leofwine, earl
1 Leofric
1 Langton, John
1 Lancaster, Sir James
1 Laforey, Sir Francis
1 Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln
1 Kite, John
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Juxon, William
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 John the Old Saxon
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 John
1 Joan, suo jure countess of Kent, and princess of Wales and of Aquitaine [called the Fair Maid of Kent]
1 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
1 Jervis, John, earl of St Vincent
1 Jermyn [Germain], Henry, earl of St Albans
1 James VI and I
1 Hussey [Huse], Sir William
1 Hungerford, Sir Walter
1 Hudson, Jeffery
1 Hudson, Henry
1 Howe, Richard, Earl Howe
1 Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk
1 Howard, Theophilus, second earl of Suffolk
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Howard, Aletheia [née Talbot], countess of Arundel, of Surrey, and of Norfolk, and suo jure Baroness Furnivall, Baroness Talbot, and Baroness Strange of Blackmere
1 Hooke, Robert
1 Hood, Robin
1 Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme
1 Hobson, William
1 Hill, Rowland, first Viscount Hill
1 Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and seventh earl of Montgomery
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry VII
1 Henry VI
1 Henry V
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hay [née Percy], Lucy, countess of Carlisle
1 Hawkins, Sir John
1 Hawke, Edward, first Baron Hawke
1 Hatton, Sir Christopher
1 Hastings, George, first earl of Huntingdon
1 Harvey, Sir Eliab
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman, baronet
1 Hamilton, Sir Charles, second baronet
1 Hales, Sir Robert
1 Gytha
1 Gyrth, earl of East Anglia
1 Guy, John
1 Guildford, Sir Richard
1 Guildford, Sir Henry
1 Grimbald [St Grimbald]
1 Grey, Thomas, second marquess of Dorset
1 Grey, Leonard [known as Lord Leonard Grey], Viscount Graney
1 Grenville, Sir Richard
1 Grant, James Augustus
1 Gonville [Gonvile], Edmund
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 George IV
1 George II
1 Fynn, Henry Francis
1 Frederick William III
1 Franklin, Sir John
1 Francis I
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Flemming [Fleming], Richard
1 Fisher, William
1 Ferrar, John
1 Evelyn, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eglesfield [Egilsfeld], Robert [Robert de Eglesfeld]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward VII
1 Edward IV
1 Edward III
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback]
1 Edmund [Edmund of Langley], first duke of York
1 Edmund II [known as Edmund Ironside]
1 Edgar Ætheling
1 Ealhswith
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Durham, William of
1 Droxford [Drokensford], John
1 Docwra, Sir Thomas
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 David II
1 Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Darcy
1 Danvers, Henry, earl of Danby
1 Dampier, William
1 Dale, Sir Thomas
1 Dacre, Thomas, second Baron Dacre of Gilsland
1 Curtis, Sir Roger, first baronet
1 Cromwell, Henry
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Caxton, William
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Thomas
1 Catesby, William
1 Catesby, Sir John
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Campbell [née Gunning], Elizabeth, duchess of Argyll and suo jure Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon [other married name Elizabeth Hamilton, duchess of Hamilton and Brandon]
1 Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander
1 Caldwell, Sir Benjamin
1 Caius [Kay, Key], Thomas
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Burgh, Richard de, second earl of Ulster [called Red Earl]
1 Bryan, Sir Thomas
1 Brome, Adam
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond
1 Brewster, William
1 Brandon, Sir Thomas
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Bradford, William
1 Brackenbury, Sir Robert
1 Bourchier, John, second Baron Berners
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Blount, Sir James
1 Bligh, Sir Richard Rodney
1 Blake, Robert
1 Blackwood, Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Bingham [Byngham], William
1 Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Bayning, Paul
1 Bateman [Norwich], William
1 Barowe [Barrow], Thomas
1 Banks, Sir Joseph, baronet
1 Balsham, Hugh of
1 Balliol, Dervorguilla de, lady of Galloway
1 Balliol [Baliol], John de
1 Ball, John
1 Baffin, William
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexandra [Princess Alexandra of Denmark]
1 Alexander I
1 Alcock, John

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