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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...
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 ...
Northampton Festival Trades Exhibition, Carnival and Pageant
‘To be content to live upon past history and achievement is a real temptation to individuals and communities alike. Well might we say, the historical associations of our Town and County richly ador...
Pageant of Gloucestershire
The Gloucestershire Historical Pageant was performed ten times to large audiences in July 1908. Over 2500 local amateur performers took part. It was, in all ways, a classic Edwardian pageant, drawi...
A Pageant of Monarchy
This was one of the many pageants in Surrey produced by David Clarke, who had worked with Christopher Ede on the Guildford pageant of 1957, and had himself produced the 1968 Guildford pageant. Like...

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1 Sydenham, London, England
1 Guildford, Surrey, England
1 Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England
1 Abington Park, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England
1 Abergavenny/Y Fenni, Monmouthshire, Wales

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1 Monck, Nugent
1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Clarke, David
1 Adams, W. Bridges

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5 Richard III
5 Elizabeth I
5 Charles I
3 Henry V
2 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
2 Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe]
2 James VI and I
2 Hood, Robin
2 Henry VIII
2 George, duke of Clarence
2 George IV
2 George III
2 Elizabeth [née Elizabeth Woodville]
2 Edward IV
2 Edward III
2 Drake, Sir Francis
2 Charles II
2 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
2 Arthur
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 Wyatt, Sir Henry
1 Wulfstan
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 William Herbert, second earl of Pembroke
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Warham, William
1 Warenne, William
1 Walworth, Sir William
1 Walsingham, Sir Francis
1 Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford
1 Waldegrave, William, first Baron Radstock
1 Villiers, George, second duke of Buckingham
1 Villiers [married name Stuart], Mary, duchess of Lennox and Richmond
1 Victoria
1 Vere, John de, thirteenth earl of Oxford
1 Urswick, Christopher
1 Tyler, Walter [Wat]
1 Tunstal [Tunstall], Cuthbert
1 Tuke, Sir Brian
1 Tudor, Jasper [Jasper of Hatfield], duke of Bedford
1 Tuck, Friar
1 Tresham, Sir Thomas
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 Teilo [St Teilo, Eliau, Eliud]
1 Taliesin
1 Sudbury, Simon
1 Stuart, James, fourth duke of Lennox and first duke of Richmond
1 Stuart, Esmé, third duke of Lennox
1 Starkey, Sir Humphrey
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir William
1 Stanley, Edward, first Baron Monteagle
1 Standish, Myles
1 Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Spencer, Sir John
1 Spencer, Henry, first earl of Sunderland
1 Somerset, Henry, first duke of Beaufort
1 Somerset, Edward, second marquess of Worcester
1 Somerset, Edward, fourth earl of Worcester
1 Somerset [née Capel], Mary, duchess of Beaufort
1 Solander, Daniel
1 Smith, Sir Thomas
1 Smith, John
1 Smith, Donald Alexander, first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
1 Slingsby, Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Sir Roger Vaughan [of Tretower]
1 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
1 Senlis, Simon
1 Scudamore, Sir John
1 Rædwald [Redwald]
1 Russell [née Harington], Lucy, countess of Bedford
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Robert, count of Mortain
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Rhys, Sir, ap Thomas
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Poynings, Sir Edward
1 Pole, Sir Charles Morice
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Parker, Sir Peter, first baronet
1 Pabo [called Pabo Post Prydain]
1 Oswiu [Oswy]
1 Ostorius Scapula, Publius
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 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Morton, John
1 Morgan, William
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montgomery, Roger de, first earl of Shrewsbury
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Montagu [Mountagu], Edward, first earl of Sandwich
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 Merlin [Myrddin]
1 Massey, Sir Edward
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Mary [Princess Mary of Teck]
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
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 Lionel [Lionel of Antwerp], duke of Clarence
1 Lindsay, John, seventeenth earl of Crawford and first earl of Lindsay [known as earl of Crawford-Lindsay]
1 Ligonier, Edward [Francis Edward], Earl Ligonier of Clonmell
1 Lewys [Llywelyn] Glyn Cothi
1 Leofwine, earl
1 Leofric
1 Langton, John
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 Julius Frontinus, Sextus
1 Joyce, George
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 Jermyn [Germain], Henry, earl of St Albans
1 James II and VII
1 Jahangir
1 Ifor ap Llywelyn [called Ifor Hael]
1 Hussey [Huse], Sir William
1 Hungerford, Sir Walter
1 Hudson, Jeffery
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, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
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 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and seventh earl of Montgomery
1 Herbert [née Sidney], Mary, countess of Pembroke
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry III
1 Henry II
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hay [née Percy], Lucy, countess of Carlisle
1 Hawkins, Sir John
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 Gundulf
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 Glyn Dŵr [Glyndŵr], Owain [Owain ap Gruffudd Fychan, Owen Glendower]
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 George VI
1 George V
1 George II
1 Frederick William III
1 Franklin, Benjamin
1 Francis I
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Fisher, William
1 Evelyn, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Elizabeth II [still alive]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster]
1 Edward VII
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 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Ealhswith
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Dryden, John
1 Droxford [Drokensford], John
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Docwra, Sir Thomas
1 Digby, John, first earl of Bristol
1 Devereux, Robert, third earl of Essex
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 David II
1 Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Darcy
1 Danvers, Henry, earl of Danby
1 Dale, Sir Thomas
1 Dafydd ap Gwilym
1 Dacre, Thomas, second Baron Dacre of Gilsland
1 Curtis, Sir Roger, first baronet
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Cook, James
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Clare, John
1 Clare, Gilbert de [Gilbert fitz Richard, Gilbert of Tonbridge]
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chillingworth, William
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charlotte [Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Louise Frederica Augusta, duchess of Devonshire [née Countess Louise Friederike Auguste von Alten; other married name Louise Frederica Augusta Montagu, duchess of Manchester]
1 Catesby, William
1 Catesby, Sir John
1 Cassivellaunus
1 Cary, Lucius, second Viscount Falkland
1 Carey, William
1 Carausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Caratacus [Caractacus]
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 Caldwell, Sir Benjamin
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Burney [married name D'Arblay], Frances [Fanny]
1 Burgh, Richard de, second earl of Ulster [called Red Earl]
1 Bryan, Sir Thomas
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond
1 Briouze [Braose], William
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 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Blount, Sir James
1 Bligh, Sir Richard Rodney
1 Bleddyn [Blethin], William
1 Blackwood, Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford
1 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
1 Beaufort, Edmund, styled third duke of Somerset
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Bayning, Paul
1 Barowe [Barrow], Thomas
1 Banks, Sir Joseph, baronet
1 Ball, John
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anselm [St Anselm]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I

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