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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...
The Chelsea Historical Pageant
Performed in 1908, the Chelsea Pageant was part of the initial wave of ‘pageantitis’, and notably the first pageant to be staged within the capital. ‘Little Chelsea’, declared The Times, was ‘going...
Deal Bi-millenary Pageant
Deal’s Bi-millenary Pageant, which began counting with the first Roman invasion of 55BC was held by kind permission of the Lord Warden and Admiral of the Cinque Ports, the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchil...
Chilham Castle Pageant
The pageants that were held immediately after 1945 were suffused with the weight of the war just past. Chilham Castle is a large Tudor-style manor house that lies between Ashford and Canterbury in ...

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1 Sydenham, London, England
1 Deal, Kent, England
1 Chilham, Kent, England
1 Chelsea, Middlesex, England

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1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Hall, James S.
1 Craig, Edith

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2 Handel, George Frideric
1 Wood, Haydn
1 Williams, Ralph Vaughan
1 Tapp, Frank
1 Rogan, Lieut. Dr Mackenzie
1 Possiter, Philip
1 Pilkington, F.
1 Macpherson, Charles
1 Mackenzie, Alexander
1 MacEwen, J.B.
1 Irvine, J. Harry
1 Holst, Gustav
1 Henry VIII
1 Gibbons, Orlando
1 German, Edward
1 Gardiner, Balfour
1 Forsyth, Cecil
1 Fletcher, Percy
1 Dowland, John
1 Corder, Paul
1 Corder, Frederick
1 Byrd, William
1 Bucalossi, Ernest
1 Bridge, Frank
1 Bell, W.H.
1 Bath, Hubert
1 Austin, Frederic
1 Allen, A.
1 Alexander, A.

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4 Henry VIII
4 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
2 Wren, Sir Christopher
2 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
2 Warham, William
2 Pepys, Samuel
2 Howard, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham
2 George II
2 Erasmus, Desiderius
2 Elizabeth I
2 Chaucer, Geoffrey
2 Charles II
2 Cassivellaunus
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 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Woffington, Margaret [Peg]
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 Wharton, Thomas, first marquess of Wharton, first marquess of Malmesbury, and first marquess of Catherlough
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
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 Vaughan, Richard, second earl of Carbery
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 Trelawny, Sir Jonathan, third baronet
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 Swift, Jonathan
1 Sudbury, Simon
1 Stuart, Esmé, third duke of Lennox
1 Steele, Sir Richard
1 Starkey, Sir Humphrey
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir William
1 Stanley, Edward, first Baron Monteagle
1 Stanhope, Lady Hester Lucy
1 Standish, Myles
1 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
1 Spencer, Sir John
1 Somerset, Edward, fourth earl of Worcester
1 Solander, Daniel
1 Smollett, Tobias George
1 Smith, Sir Thomas
1 Smith, John
1 Smith, Donald Alexander, first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
1 Sloane, Sir Hans, baronet
1 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
1 Seymour, Thomas, Baron Seymour of Sudeley
1 Saint-Évremond, Charles de Marguetel de Saint-Denis de
1 Russell [née Harington], Lucy, countess of Bedford
1 Roper, William
1 Roper [née More], Margaret
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Robert, count of Mortain
1 Robartes, John, first earl of Radnor
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
1 Richard III
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter
1 Poynings, Sir Edward
1 Pole, Sir Charles Morice
1 Poitiers, William of after 1087)
1 Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe]
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger]
1 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Parker, Sir Peter, first baronet
1 Osborne, Peregrine, second duke of Leeds of Carmarthen]
1 Orde, Sir John, first baronet
1 Offa
1 Odo, earl of Kent
1 Nugent, Sir Charles Edmund
1 Norris [Norreys], Sir John
1 Nias, Sir Joseph
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Munden, Sir John
1 Morton, John
1 More, Sir Thomas [St Thomas More]
1 More, Sir John
1 More [née Harpur; other married name Middleton], Alice, Lady More
1 More [née Cresacre], Anne
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montgomery, Bernard Law [known as Monty], first Viscount Montgomery of Alamein
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Monsey, Messenger
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
1 Mandubratius
1 MacDonnell [née Manners; other married name Villiers], Katherine, duchess of Buckingham and marchioness of Antrim
1 Luttrell, Narcissus
1 Lumley, John, fifth Baron Lumley
1 Lovell, Francis, Viscount Lovell
1 Longland, John
1 Lionel [Lionel of Antwerp], duke of Clarence
1 Ligonier, Edward [Francis Edward], Earl Ligonier of Clonmell
1 Leofwine, earl
1 Leofric
1 Langton, Stephen
1 Langton, John
1 Laforey, Sir Francis
1 Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln
1 Kéroualle, Louise Renée de Penancoët de, suo jure duchess of Portsmouth and suo jure duchess of Aubigny in the French nobility
1 Kite, John
1 King, John
1 Katherine [Kateryn, Catherine; née Katherine Parr]
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Juxon, William
1 Jones, Inigo
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 Jermyn [Germain], Henry, earl of St Albans
1 James VI and I
1 James II and VII
1 Jahangir
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, 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 Hood, Robin
1 Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme
1 Holbein, Hans, the younger
1 Hobson, William
1 Hill, Rowland, first Viscount Hill
1 Heron, Cicely
1 Herbert, Henry, tenth earl of Pembroke and seventh earl of Montgomery
1 Henry, Prince, duke of Gloucester
1 Henry V
1 Henry II
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Heidegger, Johann Jakob
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 Gwyn, Eleanor [Nell]
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 Grey [married name Dudley], Lady Jane
1 Gorges, Sir Arthur
1 Goldsmith, Oliver
1 Godwine [Godwin], earl of Wessex 1053)
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 George [St George]
1 George IV king of Hanover
1 George IV
1 George III
1 Garrick, David
1 Frederick William III
1 Francis I
1 Fox, Sir Stephen
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Fletcher, John
1 Fitzroy, Henry, duke of Richmond and Somerset
1 Fisher, William
1 Fisher, John [St John Fisher]
1 Fielding, Henry
1 Evelyn, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Aquitaine], suo jure duchess of Aquitaine
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward VI
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 Ecgferth
1 Ealhswith
1 Ealdred [Aldred]
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Dudley, Lord Guildford
1 Droxford [Drokensford], John
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Doggett, Thomas
1 Docwra, Sir Thomas
1 Divitiacus
1 Digges, Sir Dudley
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 Dacre, Thomas, second Baron Dacre of Gilsland
1 Curtis, Sir Roger, first baronet
1 Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Cook, James
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Clement [Clements; née Giggs], Margaret
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Cheyne, William, second Viscount Newhaven
1 Cheyne, Sir Thomas
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Charles I
1 Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Catesby, William
1 Catesby, Sir John
1 Carter, Elizabeth translator, and writer
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 Camillus
1 Caldwell, Sir Benjamin
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Burgh, Richard de, second earl of Ulster [called Red Earl]
1 Bryan, Sir Thomas
1 Brittany, John of, earl of Richmond
1 Brewster, William
1 Bray, Sir Reynold [Reginald]
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 Boswell, James
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Blount, Sir James
1 Bligh, Sir Richard Rodney
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 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Bayning, Paul
1 Barowe [Barrow], Thomas
1 Banks, Sir Joseph, baronet
1 Ball, John
1 Bacon, Sir Francis
1 Austen, Jane
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I
1 Addison, Joseph

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