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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Wimbledon Park Pageant and Fair
Pageants in the suburbs of London were popular during the 1920s and 1930s. If interwar London was to be defined by its suburbs, made famous as John Betjeman’s ‘Metroland’, pageants themselves were ...
Lady Godiva Procession and Pageant
Pageantry was an ancient tradition in Coventry, dating back to medieval times. The comparatively recent Godiva Procession, to commemorate Lady Godiva’s famous ride through the town during the eleve...

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1 Wimbledon, Surrey, England
1 Coventry, Warwickshire, England

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1 Seeley, Alfred
1 Kirwan, Patrick

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1 Shakespeare, William

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1 Young, G. Coleman
1 Henry VIII
1 Elgar, Edward
1 Byrd, William

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 Historical Figure

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2 Ralegh, Sir Walter
2 James VI and I
2 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
2 Elizabeth I
1 Wriothesley, Henry, second earl of Southampton Sidney, Sir Philip
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 William III and II
1 Wilberforce, William
1 Tooke, John Horne [formerly John Horne]
1 Talbot, John, second earl of Shrewsbury and second earl of Waterford
1 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
1 Stigand
1 Stephen
1 Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham
1 Siddons [née Kemble], Sarah
1 Seymour [née Grey], Katherine, countess of Hertford
1 Scott [formerly Crofts], James, duke of Monmouth and first duke of Buccleuch
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Radcliffe, Henry, fourth earl of Sussex
1 Pole, Reginald
1 Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger]
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur]
1 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
1 Mowbray, Thomas
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 Marmion, Robert
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Leigh, Thomas, first Baron Leigh
1 Lambart, Charles, first earl of Cavan
1 Knollys, Sir Francis
1 Katherine [Kateryn, Catherine; née Katherine Parr]
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 James II and VII
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Howard, Thomas, first earl of Suffolk
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Herbert, Philip, first earl of Montgomery and fourth earl of Pembroke
1 Henry V
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Guy of Warwick
1 Grey [married name Dudley], Lady Jane
1 Gresham, Sir Thomas
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 George, duke of Clarence
1 George IV
1 George III
1 Fox, Charles James
1 Evelyn, John
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward IV
1 Edward III
1 Dugdale, Sir William
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Digby, George, second earl of Bristol
1 Cromwell, Thomas, earl of Essex
1 Cranmer, Thomas
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Charles II
1 Charles I
1 Cecil, William, first Baron Burghley
1 Cavendish [née Spencer], Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire
1 Catesby, Robert
1 Bagot, Sir William
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Anne

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