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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...
Welbeck Abbey Historical Pageant
According to the Historic Houses Association, ‘The Welbeck Estate covers some 15,000 acres, nestled between Sherwood Forest and Clumber Park. At its heart lies Welbeck Abbey, a stately home which d...
The Pageant of Empire
The Pageant of Empire took place over the course of a wet six weeks in July and August 1924 in the huge newly-constructed concrete Wembley Stadium. It was just one attraction of the monumental Brit...
The Dorset Pageant
The Dorset Pageant of 1929 was a relatively small event, with only two performances, taking place on a single day. It was produced and written by Ethel Ashburnham, who was also responsible for the ...

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1 Worksop, Nottinghamshire, England
1 Wembley, Middlesex, England
1 Sydenham, London, England
1 Dorchester, Dorset, England

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2 london
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2 Lascelles, Frank
1 Bedford, Cicely
1 Ashburnham, Ethel

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3 George III
3 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
3 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
2 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
2 Wolsey, Thomas
2 Roe, Sir Thomas
2 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
2 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
2 Jahangir
2 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
2 Hood, Robin
2 Henry VIII
2 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
2 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
2 Elizabeth I
2 Ealhswith
2 Drake, Sir Francis
2 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
2 Cromwell, Oliver
2 Cook, James
2 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
2 Charles I
2 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
2 Cabot, Sebastian
2 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
2 Arthur, prince of Wales
2 Anson, George, Baron Anson
2 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Óláf [Óláfr] Tryggvason
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Æthelred I [Ethelred I]
1 Ælfwig
1 arausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Wykeham, William
1 Wyatt, Sir Henry
1 Wulfstan
1 Wulfsige [St Wulfsige]
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Wodelarke, Robert
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Wilson, Allan
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William Savile, second marquess of Halifax
1 William III and II
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 William Frederick, Prince, second duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 White, John
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
1 Werferth [Wærferth]
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Waynflete [Wainfleet, Patten], William
1 Warham, William
1 Walworth, Sir William
1 Walsingham, Sir Francis
1 Walpole, Horatio [Horace], fourth earl of Orford
1 Waldegrave, William, first Baron Radstock
1 Wakefield, William Hayward
1 Villiers, George, second duke of Buckingham
1 Villiers [married name Stuart], Mary, duchess of Lennox and Richmond
1 Vernon, James
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 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 Sutton, Sir Richard
1 Sudbury, Simon
1 Stuart, Esmé, third duke of Lennox
1 Starkey, Sir Humphrey
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir William
1 Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
1 Stanley, Edward, first Baron Monteagle
1 Standish, Myles
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 St Pol, Mary de, countess of Pembroke
1 Spencer, Sir John
1 Speke, John Hanning
1 Somerset, Edward, fourth earl of Worcester
1 Solander, Daniel
1 Smythe [Smith], Sir Thomas
1 Smith, Sir Thomas
1 Smith, John
1 Smith, Donald Alexander, first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
1 Smith [Smyth], William
1 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Shaka
1 Scott, Robert Falcon [known as Scott of the Antarctic]
1 Scoresby, William, junior
1 Russell [née Harington], Lucy, countess of Bedford
1 Rodney, George Bridges, first Baron Rodney
1 Robert, count of Mortain
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
1 Richard III
1 Rhodes, Cecil John
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Raffles, Sir
1 Radcliffe [née Sidney], Frances, countess of Sussex
1 Poynings, Sir Edward
1 Pope, Sir Thomas
1 Pole, Sir Charles Morice
1 Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe]
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Petre, Sir William
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Pelham, Thomas, first Baron Pelham
1 Parker, Sir Peter, first baronet
1 Park, Mungo
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 Newland [Nailheart], John
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Morton, John
1 Morgan, Sir Henry
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Mildmay, Sir Walter
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 Merton, Walter of
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Marconi, Guglielmo
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 Livingstone, David
1 Lionel [Lionel of Antwerp], duke of Clarence
1 Ligonier, Edward [Francis Edward], Earl Ligonier of Clonmell
1 Leofwine, earl
1 Leofric
1 Langton, John
1 Lancaster, Sir James
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 Johnson, Samuel
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 Jervis, John, earl of St Vincent
1 Jermyn [Germain], Henry, earl of St Albans
1 James VI and I
1 James II and VII
1 Hussey [Huse], Sir William
1 Hungerford, Sir Walter
1 Hudson, Jeffery
1 Hudson, Henry
1 Howe, Richard, Earl Howe
1 Howard, Thomas, second duke of Norfolk
1 Howard, Theophilus, second earl of Suffolk
1 Howard, Henry, seventh duke of Norfolk
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 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 Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and seventh earl of Montgomery
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry VII
1 Henry VI
1 Henry V
1 Hay [née Percy], Lucy, countess of Carlisle
1 Hawkins, Sir John
1 Hawke, Edward, first Baron Hawke
1 Hatton, Sir Christopher
1 Hastings, George, first earl of Huntingdon
1 Harvey, Sir Eliab
1 Harold II [Harold Godwineson]
1 Harley [née Holles], Henrietta Cavendish, countess of Oxford and Mortimer
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 Guy, John
1 Guthrum
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 Grenville, Sir Richard
1 Grant, James Augustus
1 Gonville [Gonvile], Edmund
1 Godolphin, Francis, second earl of Godolphin
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 George IV
1 George II
1 Fynn, Henry Francis
1 Frederick William III
1 Franklin, Sir John
1 Francis I
1 Frampton, Mary
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Flemming [Fleming], Richard
1 Fisher, William
1 Evelyn, John
1 Erle [Earle], Sir Walter
1 Endecott, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eglesfield [Egilsfeld], Robert [Robert de Eglesfeld]
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 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 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Durham, William of
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Droxford [Drokensford], John
1 Docwra, Sir Thomas
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 David II
1 Darcy, Thomas, Baron Darcy of Darcy
1 Danvers, Henry, earl of Danby
1 Dampier, William
1 Dale, Sir Thomas
1 Dacre, Thomas, second Baron Dacre of Gilsland
1 Curtis, Sir Roger, first baronet
1 Crabbe, George
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charlotte [Princess Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz]
1 Charlotte Augusta Matilda, princess royal
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Charles II
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Caxton, William
1 Cavendish, Thomas
1 Cavendish, Henry, second duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Charles
1 Catesby, William
1 Catesby, Sir John
1 Cassivellaunus
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 Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander
1 Caldwell, Sir Benjamin
1 Caius [Kay, Key], Thomas
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Burgh, Richard de, second earl of Ulster [called Red Earl]
1 Bryan, Sir Thomas
1 Brome, Adam
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond
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 Blake, Robert
1 Blackwood, Sir Henry, first baronet
1 Bingham [Byngham], William
1 Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford
1 Bentinck, William Henry Cavendish Cavendish-, third duke of Portland
1 Bentinck, Margaret Cavendish [née Lady Margaret Cavendish Harley], duchess of Portland
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Bayning, Paul
1 Bateman [Norwich], William
1 Barowe [Barrow], Thomas
1 Banks, Sir Joseph, baronet
1 Bankes [née Hawtrey], Mary, Lady Bankes
1 Balsham, Hugh of
1 Balliol, Dervorguilla de, lady of Galloway
1 Balliol [Baliol], John de
1 Ball, John
1 Baffin, William
1 Asser
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alexander I
1 Alcock, John

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