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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 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...
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 Pageant of Guildford 1957
The Pageant of Guildford was a relatively large event staged to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the granting of the town’s first charter. It was produced by Christopher Ede—by this point the m...

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1 Sydenham, London, England
1 St Albans, Hertfordshire, England
1 Guildford, Surrey, England
1 Dover, Kent, England

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1 Swinson, Cyril
1 Parker, Louis Napoleon
1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Ede, Christopher

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4 Henry VIII
4 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
3 Elizabeth I
3 Edward I
2 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
2 Stafford, Edward, third duke of Buckingham
2 Odo, earl of Kent
2 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
2 Joan [Joan of Acre], countess of Hertford and Gloucester
2 Henry V
2 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
2 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
2 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
2 Edmund of Almain, second earl of Cornwall
2 Charles I
2 Catherine [Catherine of Valois]
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 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Winter, Sir William
1 Winslow, Edward
1 Williams, Sir Roger
1 William [William Ætheling, William Adelinus, William Adelingus]
1 William Augustus, Prince, duke of Cumberland
1 Whittington, Richard [Dick]
1 Whitshed, Sir James Hawkins, first baronet
1 Whethamstede [Bostock], John
1 Weston, Sir Richard
1 West, Thomas, third Baron De La Warr
1 West, Nicholas
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Warham, William
1 Warenne, 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 [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 Trollope, Sir Andrew
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 Stephen
1 Starkey, Sir Humphrey
1 Stanley, Thomas, first earl of Derby
1 Stanley, Sir William
1 Stanley, Edward, first Baron Monteagle
1 Stanley [née Sackville-West], Mary Catherine, countess of Derby [other married name Mary Catherine Gascoyne-Cecil, marchioness of Salisbury]
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 Scott [formerly Crofts], James, duke of Monmouth and first duke of Buccleuch
1 Salisbury, Roger of
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 of York, third duke of York
1 Richard de Burgh, Earl of Ulster
1 Richard III
1 Rich, Henry, first earl of Holland
1 Ratcliffe, Sir Richard
1 Poynings, Sir Edward
1 Pole, Sir Charles Morice
1 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe]
1 Pitt, William, first earl of Chatham [known as Pitt the elder]
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Henry, third earl of Northumberland
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, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
1 Neville, Ralph, first earl of Westmorland
1 Nanfan, Sir Richard
1 Mowbray, John
1 Morton, John
1 Moorsom, Sir Robert
1 Montagu, William [William de Montacute], second earl of Salisbury
1 Middleton, Sir Henry
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Mary I
1 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
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 Kyriell, Sir Thomas
1 Kite, John
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
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 VI and I
1 James II and VII
1 Jahangir
1 Hussey [Huse], Sir William
1 Hungerford, Sir Walter
1 Humphrey [Humfrey or Humphrey of Lancaster]
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 Hood, Robin
1 Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme
1 Holland, Henry, second duke of Exeter
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 III
1 Henry I
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 Gurdun [Gurdon], Sir Adam
1 Guildford, Sir Richard
1 Guildford, Sir Henry
1 Grimston, Sir Samuel, third baronet
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, prince of Denmark and duke of Cumberland
1 George IV
1 George III
1 George II
1 Frederick William III
1 Francis I
1 Fox [Foxe], Richard
1 Fordham, John
1 Fitzwalter, Robert
1 Fisher, William
1 Evelyn, John
1 Eustace
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Edward [Edward of Woodstock; known as the Black Prince], prince of Wales and of Aquitaine
1 Edward [Edward of Westminster], prince of Wales
1 Edward III
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
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, Thomas, earl of Essex
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 Churchill, John, first duke of Marlborough
1 Churchill [née Jenyns], Sarah, duchess of Marlborough
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles VI
1 Charles V
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Charles II
1 Cecil [née Brydges; other married name Smith], Frances, countess of Exeter
1 Cavendish, William, first duke of Newcastle upon Tyne
1 Catton [known as Bronde], Robert
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 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 Bourchier, Henry, first earl of Essex
1 Boudicca [Boadicea]
1 Boscawen, Edward
1 Bonville, William, first Baron Bonville
1 Boleyn, George, Viscount Rochford
1 Blount, Sir James
1 Bloet, Robert
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 Beaufort, Henry, second duke of Somerset
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 Nicholas
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Bacon, Anthony
1 Bacon [née Cooke], Anne, Lady Bacon
1 Astley, John
1 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Arthur
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anne [Anne Boleyn]
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Anne
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I

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