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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 Walthamstow Pageant 1930
The Walthamstow Pageant of 1930 was staged to commemorate the granting of a Charter of Borough Incorporation the previous year. It took place indoors at the plush Palace Theatre, an impressive buil...

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1 Walthamstow, Essex, England
1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Shakespeare, William

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1 Wood, Charles
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Whyte, Robert
1 Weatherdon, H.R.
1 Warlock, Peter
1 Walton, William
1 Stanley, John
1 Purcell, Henry
1 Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
1 Meyerbeer, Giacomo
1 Lindsay, Robert
1 Kreisler, Fritz
1 John of Forness
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Handel, George Frideric
1 Gibbons, Ellis
1 Foster, Arnold
1 Earle, Giles
1 Dunstable, John
1 Dowland, John
1 Covey-Crump, Lewis
1 Chirbury, Robert
1 Benet, John
1 Balfe, Michael

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Includes any figure with listing in ODNB, important foreigners (eg. Julius Caesar), mythological and fictional characters

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2 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
2 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
2 Henry VIII
2 Elizabeth I
1 William [William Ætheling, William Adelinus, William Adelingus]
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Whethamstede [Bostock], John
1 Warenne, William
1 Turpin, Richard [Dick]
1 Trollope, Sir Andrew
1 Tallis, Thomas
1 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
1 Stephen
1 Stanley [née Sackville-West], Mary Catherine, countess of Derby [other married name Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, marchioness of Salisbury]
1 Salisbury, Roger of
1 Russell, Francis, second earl of Bedford
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Henry, third earl of Northumberland
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Pepys [née de St Michel], Elizabeth
1 Penn, Sir William
1 Mowbray, John
1 Morris, William
1 Morley, Thomas
1 Monoux, George
1 Maynard, Sir Henry
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Lanfranc
1 Kyriell, Sir Thomas
1 Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne-, first baronet
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster]
1 Holland, Henry, second duke of Exeter
1 Henry VI
1 Henry V
1 Henry I
1 Grimston, Sir Samuel, third baronet
1 Grey [married name Dudley], Lady Jane
1 George, prince of Denmark and duke of Cumberland
1 Gascoigne, George
1 Frobisher, Sir Martin
1 Frobisher
1 Faulkner, Charles Joseph
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster], prince of Wales
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster]
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Dixon, Richard Watson
1 Disraeli, Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield
1 D'Israeli, Isaac
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 Byrd, William
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 Beaufort, Henry, second duke of Somerset
1 Beauchamp, Richard, thirteenth earl of Warwick
1 Batten, Sir William
1 Ball, John
1 Bacon, Sir Nicholas
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Bacon, Anthony
1 Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon
1 Astley, John
1 Ascham, Roger
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne

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