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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Lady Godiva Procession and Pageant
Pageantry was an ancient tradition in Coventry, dating back to medieval times. The comparatively recent Godiva Procession, to commemorate Lady Godiva’s famous ride through the town during the eleve...
The Romsey Pageant
The Romsey Pageant was first mooted in June 1906, in the midst of widespread pageant fever, when local civic dignitaries met to suggest a suitable celebration of the millenary of the founding of Ro...

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1 Romsey, Hampshire, England
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1 Skrine, J.H.
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Moshead, Miss Anderson
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.H.

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1 Tours, Louis
1 Richards, T.C.
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.
1 Ambrose, S.

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2 James VI and I
2 Henry II
2 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
2 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
2 Charles I
1 Æthelwold [St Æthelwold, Ethelwold]
1 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Ælfthryth
1 William III and II
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 Weston, Sir William
1 Talbot, John, second earl of Shrewsbury and second earl of Waterford
1 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
1 Symmons, Edward
1 Stephen
1 Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham
1 Scott [formerly Crofts], James, duke of Monmouth and first duke of Buccleuch
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Petty, Sir William
1 Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur]
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Mowbray, Thomas
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 Marmion, Robert
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Lyster, Sir Richard
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Leigh, Thomas, first Baron Leigh
1 Layton, Richard
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 James II and VII
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Howard, Thomas, first earl of Suffolk
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Herbert, Sir Thomas, first baronet
1 Henry V
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry I
1 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
1 Guy of Warwick
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 George, duke of Clarence
1 George IV
1 Elizabeth I
1 Edward [called Edward the Elder]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward IV
1 Edward III
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Dugdale, Sir William
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Denewulf
1 Cobbett, John
1 Charles II
1 Catesby, Robert
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Beauchamp, Richard
1 Bagot, Sir William
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Andrewes, Lancelot

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