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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Kenilworth Castle Pageant
The Kenilworth Castle Pageant was another landmark pageantry event in Warwickshire, following the Warwick pageants of 1906 and 1930. Despite being billed as a ‘Kenilworth’ pageant, it depended on v...
Pageant of Gwent
The Pageant of Gwent took place in 1913 at Abergavenny as part of the Royal National Eisteddfod of Wales—the second time the arts festival had been held in the county following Newport in 1897. It ...
Derbyshire Coronation Pageant
Excerpts from Shakespeare’s history plays were a very common feature of historical pageantry, one example being the Southampton Quincentenary Pageant of 1947, which began with the trial scene from ...

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1 Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England
1 Bakewell, Derbyshire, England
1 Abergavenny/Y Fenni, Monmouthshire, Wales

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1 Parker, Anthony
1 Leak, H. Talbot
1 Adams, W. Bridges

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1 Thomas, Miss L.E.
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Marlowe, Christopher

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1 Williams, Charles
1 Trowbridge, Miss
1 Sparks, Franklin
1 Blackall, Allen K.

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 Historical Figure

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3 Henry V
2 Elizabeth I
1 William Herbert, second earl of Pembroke
1 Vescy, John de
1 Tresham, Sir Thomas
1 Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln
1 Teilo [St Teilo, Eliau, Eliud]
1 Taliesin
1 Stuart, James, fourth duke of Lennox and first duke of Richmond
1 Stanley, Sir John
1 Stafford, Humphrey, first duke of Buckingham
1 Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham
1 Somerset, Henry, first duke of Beaufort
1 Somerset, Edward, second marquess of Worcester
1 Somerset [née Capel], Mary, duchess of Beaufort
1 Slingsby, Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Sir Roger Vaughan [of Tretower]
1 Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Shuckburgh, Sir Richard
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Scudamore, Sir John
1 Roger, second earl of Warwick
1 Richard III
1 Rhys, Sir, ap Thomas
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Pole, William de la, first duke of Suffolk
1 Pabo [called Pabo Post Prydain]
1 Ottobuono [Ottobuono or Ottobono Fieschi; later Adrian V]
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Mortimer, Roger
1 Morgan, William
1 Montfort, Sir Simon de, the younger
1 Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester
1 Montagu, Thomas [Thomas de Montacute], fourth earl of Salisbury
1 Montagu [Mountagu], Edward, first earl of Sandwich
1 Merlin [Myrddin]
1 Maltravers [Mautravers], John, first Lord Maltravers
1 Lindsay, John, seventeenth earl of Crawford and first earl of Lindsay [known as earl of Crawford-Lindsay]
1 Lewys [Llywelyn] Glyn Cothi
1 Julius Frontinus, Sextus
1 John de Beauchamp
1 John [John of Lancaster], duke of Bedford
1 John Shakespeare
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Ifor ap Llywelyn [called Ifor Hael]
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester [called Good Duke Humphrey]
1 Holland [Holand], John, first duke of Exeter [Earl of Huntingdon]
1 Herbert [née Sidney], Mary, countess of Pembroke
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Hastings, Sir Henry
1 Glyn Dŵr [Glyndŵr], Owain [Owain ap Gruffudd Fychan, Owen Glendower]
1 George, duke of Clarence
1 Elizabeth [née Elizabeth Woodville]
1 Eleanor, countess of Pembroke and Leicester
1 Eleanor [née Eleanor Cobham]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince]
1 Edward [Edward of Langley, Edward of York], second duke of York
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I
1 Edmund [called Edmund Crouchback], first earl of Lancaster and first earl of Leicester
1 Edmund [Edmund of Woodstock], first earl of Kent
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Digby, John, first earl of Bristol
1 Dafydd ap Gwilym
1 Clinton, Geoffrey of
1 Clare, Gilbert de [called Gilbert the Red], seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford
1 Charles VI
1 Charles I
1 Cecil, Thomas, first earl of Exeter
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Brooke [Cobham], Sir Henry
1 Briouze [Braose], William
1 Bleddyn [Blethin], William
1 Beaufort, Thomas, duke of Exeter
1 Asserio, Rigaud de
1 Arthur

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