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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Coronation Pageant
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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...
Preston Children's Pageant
Pageantry comes to Preston every twenty years when its ceremonial guild festival is held and street processions, special receptions and all kinds of ceremony attract locals and visitors alike.[1] T...
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...

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1 Widnes, Lancashire, England
1 Wembley, Middlesex, England
1 Sydenham, London, England
1 Preston, Lancashire, England

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2 Lascelles, Frank
1 Berry, A.J.

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4 Drake, Sir Francis
4 Cook, James
3 Elizabeth I
2 Wolsey, Thomas
2 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
2 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
2 Smith [Smyth], William
2 Shakespeare, William
2 Roe, Sir Thomas
2 Rhodes, Cecil John
2 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
2 Livingstone, David
2 Jahangir
2 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
2 Hood, Robin
2 Henry VIII
2 Hawkins, Sir John
2 Grenville, Sir Richard
2 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
2 George III
2 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
2 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
2 Cromwell, Oliver
2 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
2 Charles II
2 Charles I
2 Cabot, Sebastian
2 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
2 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
2 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Óláf [Óláfr] Tryggvason
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 Æthelberht I
1 Ælfwig
1 arausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius]
1 Wykeham, William
1 Wyatt, Sir Henry
1 Wulfstan
1 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Wolfe, James
1 Wodelarke, Robert
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Wilson, Allan
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
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 Victoria United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India
1 Victoria
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, James, seventh earl of Derby
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 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
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 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Rodney, George Bridges, first Baron Rodney
1 Robert, count of Mortain
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
1 Richard III
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Ralegh, Sir Walter and author
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 Percy, Henry, fourth earl of Northumberland
1 Pepys, Samuel
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 Napoléon Bonaparte
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 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
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 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 of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and count of Anjou
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
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 England, and Ireland
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, Charles, second Baron Howard of Effingham and first earl of Nottingham commander
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 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hay [née Percy], Lucy, countess of Carlisle
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 Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman, baronet
1 Hamilton, Sir Charles, second baronet
1 Hamilton, James, first duke of Hamilton
1 Hales, Sir Robert
1 Gytha
1 Gyrth, earl of East Anglia
1 Guy, John
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 Grant, James Augustus
1 Gordon, Charles George
1 Gonville [Gonvile], Edmund
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 George IV
1 George II
1 Fynn, Henry Francis
1 Frobisher, Sir Martin
1 Frederick William III
1 Franklin, Sir John
1 Francis I
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Flemming [Fleming], Richard
1 Fisher, William
1 Evelyn, 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 [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward VII
1 Edward IV
1 Edward III
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
1 Edward I of Aquitaine
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 Ealhswith
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 Cromwell, Oliver England, Scotland, and Ireland
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Clive, Robert, first Baron Clive of Plassey India
1 Clive, Robert, first Baron Clive of Plassey
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Charles Edward [Charles Edward Stuart; styled Charles III; known as the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie] and Irish throne
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Caxton, William
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Thomas
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 Britannia emblem of empire, and patriotic icon
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 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 Bertha
1 Beresford, William Carr, Viscount Beresford
1 Beauchamp, Thomas, twelfth earl of Warwick
1 Bayning, Paul
1 Bateman [Norwich], William
1 Barowe [Barrow], Thomas
1 Banks, Sir Joseph, baronet
1 Balsham, Hugh of
1 Balliol, Dervorguilla de, lady of Galloway
1 Balliol [Baliol], John de
1 Ball, John
1 Baffin, William
1 Augustine [St Augustine]
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Ambrose, Isaac clergyman and ejected minister
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I
1 Alcock, John

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