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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 Rochester, Kent, England
1 Hursley, Hampshire, England

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2 town
1 institutional

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1 Weir, Mrs Robert
1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Lascelles, Frank

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Stevens, F.E.

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3 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
3 Elizabeth I
2 Henry I
1 Æthelberht I
1 Ælfthryth
1 Wilmot, John, second earl of Rochester
1 William [William Ætheling, William Adelinus, William Adelingus]
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 Whethamstede [Bostock], John
1 Watts, Richard
1 Warenne, William
1 Vespasian [Titus Flavius Vespasianus]
1 Vere, Aubrey de, twentieth 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 Seymour, William, first marquess of Hertford and second duke of Somerset
1 Seymour, Edward, first earl of Hertford
1 Salisbury, Roger of
1 Sackville, Charles, sixth earl of Dorset and first earl of Middlesex
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Ratcliffe, Thomas
1 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Plautius, Aulus
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Henry, third earl of Northumberland
1 Paulinus [St Paulinus]
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Mowbray, John
1 Morice, Sir William
1 Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester
1 Montagu, Edward, second earl of Manchester
1 Mellitus
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Lisle, Lady Alice [née Alice Beconsawe]
1 Laurence [St Laurence, Lawrence]
1 Kyriell, Sir Thomas
1 Justus [St Justus]
1 Jeffreys, George, first Baron Jeffreys
1 James II and VII
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster]
1 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
1 Holland, Henry, second duke of Exeter
1 Hogarth, Georgina
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry VI
1 Hawkins, Sir John
1 Grimston, Sir Samuel, third baronet
1 Gloucester, Robert of
1 George, prince of Denmark and duke of Cumberland
1 George IV
1 Fitzherbert [née Smythe; other married name Weld]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster], prince of Wales
1 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Dickens, Charles John Huffam
1 Devereux, Robert, second earl of Essex
1 Clinton, Edward Fiennes de, first earl of Lincoln
1 Claudius [Tiberius Claudius Nero Germanicus]
1 Churchill, John, first duke of Marlborough
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles II
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Catton [known as Bronde], Robert
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
1 Carey, Henry, first Baron Hunsdon
1 Butler, James, first duke of Ormond
1 Brooke, William, tenth Baron Cobham
1 Bourchier, Henry, first earl of Essex
1 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Bonville, William, first Baron Bonville
1 Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford
1 Bloet, Robert
1 Berengaria [Berengaria of Navarre]
1 Beaufort, Henry, second duke of Somerset
1 Bacon, Sir Nicholas
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Bacon, Anthony
1 Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon
1 Augustine [St Augustine]
1 Astley, John
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne
1 Adela, countess of Blois

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