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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Chelsea Historical Pageant
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Historical Figure: Kéroualle, Louise Renée De Penancoët De, Suo Jure Duchess Of Portsmouth And Suo Jure Duchess Of Aubigny In The French Nobility

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1 Egham, Surrey, England
1 Chelsea, Middlesex, England
1 Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England

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Type of social collective or organization a pageant was intended to celebrate

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2 town
1 national
1 london
1 church

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Lally, Gwen
1 Irvine, J. Harry

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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1 Taylor, Mrs
1 Spenser, Edmund
1 Radice, Fulke
1 O’Neill, Mrs Edward
1 Lee, G. Ambrose
1 Lally, Gwen
1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Home, Gordon
1 Hawtrey, Miss
1 Drinkwater, John
1 Cran, Mrs George
1 Cochrane, Arthur
1 Cochrane, Alfred
1 Blunt, Reginald
1 Binyon, Laurence
1 Alexander, Russell

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Includes names of composers at time of pageants, original composers, and those who did arrangements

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1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Henry VIII
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Darewski, Hermann
1 Bucalossi, Ernest

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 Historical Figure

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3 Kéroualle, Louise Renée de Penancoët de, suo jure duchess of Portsmouth and suo jure duchess of Aubigny in the French nobility
2 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
2 Henry VIII
2 Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]
2 Charles II
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Woffington, Margaret [Peg]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Wharton, Thomas, first marquess of Wharton, first marquess of Malmesbury, and first marquess of Catherlough
1 Wesley [Westley], John of England clergyman and a founder of Methodism
1 Wells, Hugh of
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Warham, William
1 Warenne, William
1 Victoria United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India
1 Vespasian [Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
1 Vere, Robert de, third earl of Oxford
1 Vaughan, Richard, second earl of Carbery
1 Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, third baronet
1 Swift, Jonathan
1 Stephen
1 Steele, Sir Richard
1 Stafford, Ralph, first earl of Stafford
1 Smollett, Tobias George
1 Sloane, Sir Hans, baronet
1 Seymour, Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley
1 Seymour, Charles, sixth duke of Somerset
1 Seymour [née Percy], Elizabeth, duchess of Somerset
1 Saint-Évremond, Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de
1 Roper, William
1 Roper [née More], Margaret
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
1 Robartes, John, first earl of Radnor
1 Richard, duke of York and duke of Norfolk
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter explorer, and author [also known as Raleigh, Sir Walter]
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Pole, Michael de la, first earl of Suffolk
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Offa
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Munden, Sir John
1 Mowbray, William de
1 Mortimer, Roger
1 More, Sir Thomas [St Thomas More]
1 More, Sir John
1 More [née Harpur; other married name Middleton], Alice, Lady More
1 More [née Cresacre], Anne
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Monsey, Messenger
1 Mogg, Mary [Molly]
1 Matilda [Matilda of Boulogne]
1 Mary [Mary Stewart] of Scots
1 Mary I
1 Marshal, William
1 Mandubratius
1 Luttrell, Narcissus
1 Longespée [Lungespée], William
1 London, Henry of [Henry de Loundres]
1 Langton, Stephen
1 King, John
1 Katherine [Kateryn, Catherine; née Katherine Parr] Henry VIII
1 Katherine [Kateryn, Catherine; née Katherine Parr]
1 Katherine [Catherine; née Katherine Howard] VIII
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 John lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and count of Anjou
1 John II
1 John
1 Joan of Arc and military leader
1 Joan [Joan of the Tower]
1 Jane [née Jane Seymour]
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Hood, Robin cent.)
1 Holbein, Hans, the younger
1 Heron, Cicely
1 Heidegger, Johann Jakob
1 Grey [married name Dudley], Lady Jane
1 Gray, Walter de
1 Gorges, Sir Arthur
1 Goldsmith, Oliver
1 Godolphin, Sidney, first earl of Godolphin
1 George [St George]
1 George II
1 Gay, John
1 Garrick, David
1 Fox, Sir Stephen
1 Forz [Fortibus], William de, count of Aumale
1 Fletcher, John
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Fisher, John [St John Fisher]
1 Fielding, Henry
1 Erasmus, Desiderius
1 Elizabeth I
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince]
1 Edward VI
1 Edward V and lord of Ireland
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Ecgferth
1 Dudley, Lord Guildford
1 Drake, Sir Francis sea captain, and explorer
1 Doggett, Thomas
1 Divitiacus
1 David II
1 Clement [Clements; née Giggs], Margaret
1 Clare, Richard de, sixth earl of Gloucester and fifth earl of Hertford
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Cheyne, William, second Viscount Newhaven
1 Charles V
1 Charles II England, Scotland, and Ireland
1 Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Camillus
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Bray, Sir Reynold [Reginald]
1 Boudicca [Boadicea] of the Iceni [also known as Boudica]
1 Boswell, James
1 Bohun, Henry de, first earl of Hereford
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, eleventh earl of Warwick
1 Bacon, Sir Francis
1 Augustine [St Augustine] and archbishop of Canterbury
1 Aubigny, William d' [William de Albini], third earl of Arundel
1 Anne [Anne of Cleves] of England, fourth consort of Henry VIII
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn] of England, second consort of Henry VIII
1 Anne Britain and Ireland
1 Anne
1 Alfred [Ælfred] the West Saxons and of the Anglo-Saxons [also known as Aelfred, the Great]
1 Albert [Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha]
1 Addison, Joseph

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