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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 Pageant of England
If one were in search of England in the 1930s, as so many contemporaries from H.V. Morton to J.B. Priestley to George Orwell seemed to be, one could do worse than head to Slough. The army had set u...
Heritage Pageant
There had been pageants at Chailey put on by the Heritage Craft Schools for lame and crippled children in 1919, 1920, and 1922, though these had all been processional.

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1 Slough, Buckinghamshire, England
1 Coventry, Warwickshire, England
1 Chailey, Sussex, England

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2 large town/city
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1 Seeley, Alfred
1 Lally, Gwen

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1 Shakespeare, William

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1 Lally, Gwen
1 Bowen, Marjorie

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3 William III and II
3 Elizabeth I
3 Edward III
2 Wren, Sir Christopher
2 Spenser, Edmund
2 Ralegh, Sir Walter
2 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
2 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
2 Mary II
2 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
2 James II and VII
2 Isabella [Isabella of France]
2 Howard, Thomas, first earl of Suffolk
2 Henry V
2 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
2 George IV
2 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
2 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
2 Charles II
2 Charles I
2 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Áedán [St Áedán, Aidan]
1 Wulfstan
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 William IV
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Warton, Thomas
1 Walsingham, Sir Francis
1 Waller, Sir Hardress
1 Villiers, George, first duke of Buckingham
1 Vavasour [married names Finch, Richardson], Anne
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Talbot, John, second earl of Shrewsbury and second earl of Waterford
1 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
1 Talbot [née Hardwick], Elizabeth [Bess; called Bess of Hardwick], countess of Shrewsbury
1 Stephen
1 Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham
1 Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Sidney [née Dudley], Mary, Lady Sidney
1 Siddons [née Kemble], Sarah
1 Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Scott, Sir Walter
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 Richard II
1 Philip II
1 Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur]
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Otto I [the Great]
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Mowbray, Thomas
1 Montagu, Henry, first earl of Manchester
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 Marmion, Robert
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Leigh, Thomas, first Baron Leigh
1 Jones, Inigo
1 James VI and I
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Herbert, Philip, first earl of Montgomery and fourth earl of Pembroke
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hawkins, Sir John
1 Guy of Warwick
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 George, duke of Clarence
1 George III
1 Frobisher, Sir Martin
1 Francis I
1 Evelyn, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince]
1 Edward IV
1 Edgeworth, Maria
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Dugdale, Sir William
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Davenant, John
1 Crabbe, George
1 Charlotte [Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]
1 Charlotte Augusta, Princess [Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales]
1 Charles I [Charlemagne]
1 Cavendish, Henry, second duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Catesby, Robert
1 Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances [Fanny]
1 Brummell, George Bryan [known as Beau Brummell]
1 Bagot, Sir William
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Austen, Jane
1 Augusta Sophia, Princess
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Aldhelm [St Aldhelm]

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