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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Dover Pageant
Dover’s staging of a historical folk-play in 1908 was a nationally important and spectacular example of an Edwardian town gripped by ‘pageantitis’. Directed by the original master himself, Louis Na...
The Pageant of Centuries
Buckden Palace was formerly the seat of the Bishops of Lincoln, first constructed sometime in the twelfth century and continually extended, rebuilt and repaired (due to recurring fires) over the ce...
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...
Historical Pageant of Ipswich
‘The idea of writing a historical pageant of Ipswich was conceived by the History Club some time ago, and visions of its possible form presented themselves in February, 1934 when Mr. Rowley Ellisto...

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1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 March, MIss
1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Capel, Arthur Harold

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4 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
4 Edward I
3 Henry VIII
2 Wolsey, Thomas
2 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
2 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
2 Odo, earl of Kent
2 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
2 James VI and I
2 Hood, Robin
2 Henry V
2 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
2 George IV
2 Elizabeth I
2 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
2 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
2 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
2 Charles II
2 Charles I
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 Wren, Sir Christopher
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
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 Villiers, George, second duke of Buckingham
1 Villiers, George, first duke of Buckingham
1 Villiers [married name Stuart], Mary, duchess of Lennox and Richmond
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 Sudbury, Simon
1 Stuart, Esmé, third duke of Lennox
1 Stigand
1 Starkey, Sir Humphrey
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir William
1 Stanley, Edward, first Baron Monteagle
1 Standish, Myles
1 Spencer, Sir John
1 Somerset, Edward, fourth earl of Worcester
1 Solander, Daniel
1 Smith, Sir Thomas
1 Smith, John
1 Smith, Donald Alexander, first Baron Strathcona and Mount Royal
1 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
1 Russell [née Harington], Lucy, countess of Bedford
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Roches, Peter des [Peter de Rupibus]
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 Rich, Henry, first earl of Holland
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Poynings, Sir Edward
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 Pencester [Penchester, Penshurst], Sir Stephen of
1 Parker, Sir Peter, first baronet
1 Orde, Sir John, first baronet
1 Nugent, Sir Charles Edmund
1 Norris [Norreys], Sir John
1 Nias, Sir Joseph
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Morton, John
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montfort, Simon de, eighth earl of Leicester
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Mary I
1 Margaret de Neville
1 Margaret [Margaret Tudor]
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, Stephen
1 Langton, John
1 Laforey, Sir Francis
1 Lacy, Henry de, fifth earl of Lincoln
1 Kite, John
1 Katherine [Catherine; née Katherine Howard]
1 Juxon, William
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 [John de Balliol]
1 John
1 Joan, suo jure countess of Kent, and princess of Wales and of Aquitaine [called the Fair Maid of Kent]
1 Jermyn [Germain], Henry, earl of St Albans
1 James II and VII
1 Jahangir
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
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, 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 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
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 III
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 Guildford, Sir Richard
1 Guildford, Sir Henry
1 Grosseteste, Robert
1 Grimbald [St Grimbald]
1 Grey, Thomas, second marquess of Dorset
1 Grey, Leonard [known as Lord Leonard Grey], Viscount Graney
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 Gilbert of Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford
1 Giffard, Walter
1 George III
1 George II
1 Frederick William III
1 Francis I
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Fordham, John
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Fitzherbert [née Smythe; other married name Weld], Maria Anne
1 Fisher, William
1 Evelyn, John
1 Eustace
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward III
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 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Droxford [Drokensford], John
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
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 Dale, Sir Thomas
1 Dacre, Thomas, second Baron Dacre of Gilsland
1 Curtis, Sir Roger, first baronet
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Cook, James
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Clare, Gilbert de [called Gilbert the Red], seventh earl of Gloucester and sixth earl of Hertford
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles VI
1 Charles V
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Cavendish, Thomas
1 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
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 Caldwell, Sir Benjamin
1 Caesar [Gaius Julius Caesar]
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Burgh, Richard de, second earl of Ulster [called Red Earl]
1 Burgh, Hubert de, earl of Kent
1 Bryan, Sir Thomas
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 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 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Arthur
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I

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