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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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St Albans Pageant 1953: A Masque of the Queens
Having staged a pageant during the height of Edwardian ‘pageant fever’ in 1907, as well as one of the early post-war pageants in 1948, St Albans did it for the third time during the Coronation cele...
The Bury St Edmunds Pageant
The Bury St Edmunds Pageant of 1907 was a major event, successful both in financial outcome and the vagaries of public opinion. Staged in July, it was an archetypal expression of Edwardian pageantr...

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Ogilvie, G. Stuart

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1 Wood, Charles
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Whyte, Robert
1 Warlock, Peter
1 Walton, William
1 Wagner, Richard
1 Stanley, John
1 Shann, C.J.H.
1 Rhoades, James
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
1 Morley, Felix W.
1 Meyerbeer, Giacomo
1 Lindsay, Robert
1 Kreisler, Fritz
1 John of Forness
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Gibbons, Ellis
1 Ganz, C.J.W.
1 Foster, Arnold
1 Earle, Giles
1 Dunstable, John
1 Dowland, John
1 Covey-Crump, Lewis
1 Clark, Owen. A.
1 Chirbury, Robert
1 Benet, John
1 Barker, Horace
1 Balfe, Michael

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2 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
2 Henry VI
2 Henry I
2 Elizabeth I
2 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Ívarr [Ívarr inn Beinlausi, Ingwaer, Imhar]
1 Wingfield, Sir Anthony
1 William [William Ætheling, William Adelinus, William Adelingus]
1 Whethamstede [Bostock], John
1 Warenne, William
1 Vere, Robert de, third earl of Oxford
1 Trollope, Sir Andrew
1 Stephen
1 Stanley [née Sackville-West], Mary Catherine, countess of Derby [other married name Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, marchioness of Salisbury]
1 Stafford, Humphrey, first duke of Buckingham
1 Samson
1 Salisbury, Roger of
1 Richard of York, third duke of York
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Henry, third earl of Northumberland
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Mowbray, John
1 Montagu, Thomas [Thomas de Montacute], fourth earl of Salisbury
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Mary
1 Mandeville, Geoffrey de, first earl of Essex
1 Lydgate, John
1 Kyriell, Sir Thomas
1 Kitson, Sir Thomas
1 John
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster], duke of Gloucester [called Good Duke Humphrey]
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster]
1 Holland, Henry, second duke of Exeter
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry II
1 Grimston, Sir Samuel, third baronet
1 George, prince of Denmark and duke of Cumberland
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
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 Westminster], prince of Wales
1 Edmund [St Edmund]
1 Curteys, William
1 Cnut [Canute]
1 Churchill, John, first duke of Marlborough
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Catton [known as Bronde], Robert
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Brandon, Charles, first duke of Suffolk
1 Brakelond, Jocelin of
1 Bourchier, Henry, first earl of Essex
1 Bonville, William, first Baron Bonville
1 Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford
1 Bloet, Robert
1 Bigod, Roger
1 Beaufort, Henry, second duke of Somerset
1 Beaufort, Henry [called the Cardinal of England]
1 Beauchamp, Richard, thirteenth earl of Warwick
1 Baldwin
1 Bacon, Sir Nicholas
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Bacon, Anthony
1 Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon
1 Astley, John
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne
1 Adela, countess of Blois

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