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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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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...
The Walthamstow Pageant 1930
The Walthamstow Pageant of 1930 was staged to commemorate the granting of a Charter of Borough Incorporation the previous year. It took place indoors at the plush Palace Theatre, an impressive buil...
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 Wembley, Middlesex, England
1 Walthamstow, Essex, England
1 Coventry, Warwickshire, England

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1 large town/city
1 empire

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 Pageant Master

Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Seeley, Alfred
1 Lascelles, Frank

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2 Shakespeare, William
1 Wrey, Sir Bourchier
1 Wade, F.C.
1 Stuart, J.
1 Struben, A.
1 Ross, E. Denison
1 Oman, Charles
1 Luffman, Captain
1 Kirwan, Patrick
1 Hammersley-Heenan, Mr
1 Foster, William
1 Darbyshire, T.
1 Blankenberg, Lady

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3 Ralegh, Sir Walter
3 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
3 Elizabeth I
2 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
2 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
2 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
2 Henry VIII
2 Henry V
2 Edward IV
2 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Wykeham, William
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Wodelarke, Robert
1 Wilson, Allan
1 William III and II
1 William I [known as William the Conqueror]
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 Waynflete [Wainfleet, Patten], William
1 Wakefield, William Hayward
1 Turpin, Richard [Dick]
1 Tallis, Thomas
1 Talbot, John, second earl of Shrewsbury and second earl of Waterford
1 Sutton, Sir Richard
1 Stephen
1 Stanley, Sir Henry Morton
1 Stafford, Henry, second duke of Buckingham
1 St Pol, Mary de, countess of Pembroke
1 Speke, John Hanning
1 Smythe [Smith], Sir Thomas
1 Smith [Smyth], William
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Shaka
1 Scott, Robert Falcon [known as Scott of the Antarctic]
1 Scott [formerly Crofts], James, duke of Monmouth and first duke of Buccleuch
1 Scoresby, William, junior
1 Russell, Francis, second earl of Bedford
1 Rupert, prince and count palatine of the Rhine and duke of Cumberland
1 Roe, Sir Thomas
1 Rodney, George Bridges, first Baron Rodney
1 Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart]
1 Rhodes, Cecil John
1 Raffles, Sir
1 Radcliffe [née Sidney], Frances, countess of Sussex
1 Pope, Sir Thomas
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur]
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Pepys [née de St Michel], Elizabeth
1 Penn, Sir William
1 Park, Mungo
1 Newland [Nailheart], John
1 Mowbray, Thomas
1 Morris, William
1 Morley, Thomas
1 Morgan, Sir Henry
1 Monoux, George
1 Mildmay, Sir Walter
1 Merton, Walter of
1 Maynard, Sir Henry
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 Marmion, Robert
1 Marconi, Guglielmo
1 Livingstone, David
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Leigh, Thomas, first Baron Leigh
1 Lanfranc
1 Lancaster, Sir James
1 Jones, Sir Edward Coley Burne-, first baronet
1 Johnson, Samuel
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 Jervis, John, earl of St Vincent
1 James VI and I
1 James II and VII
1 Jahangir
1 Isabella [Isabella of France]
1 Hudson, Henry
1 Howe, Richard, Earl Howe
1 Howard, Thomas, first earl of Suffolk
1 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Henry VII
1 Henry VI
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Hawke, Edward, first Baron Hawke
1 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
1 Guy, John
1 Guy of Warwick
1 Grey [married name Dudley], Lady Jane
1 Grenville, Sir Richard
1 Grant, James Augustus
1 Gonville [Gonvile], Edmund
1 Godgifu [Godiva]
1 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
1 George, duke of Clarence
1 George IV
1 George III
1 Gascoigne, George
1 Fynn, Henry Francis
1 Frobisher, Sir Martin
1 Frobisher
1 Franklin, Sir John
1 Flemming [Fleming], Richard
1 Faulkner, Charles Joseph
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
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 [Edward of Westminster]
1 Edward III
1 Durham, William of
1 Dugdale, Sir William
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Dixon, Richard Watson
1 Disraeli, Benjamin, earl of Beaconsfield
1 Dampier, William
1 D'Israeli, Isaac
1 Cromwell, Oliver
1 Cook, James
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Charles II
1 Charles I
1 Caxton, William
1 Cavendish, Thomas
1 Catesby, Robert
1 Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander
1 Caius [Kay, Key], Thomas
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Byrd, William
1 Brome, Adam
1 Blake, Robert
1 Bingham [Byngham], William
1 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
1 Beauchamp, Richard, thirteenth earl of Warwick
1 Batten, Sir William
1 Bateman [Norwich], William
1 Balsham, Hugh of
1 Balliol, Dervorguilla de, lady of Galloway
1 Balliol [Baliol], John de
1 Ball, John
1 Bagot, Sir William
1 Baffin, William
1 Ascham, Roger
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Alcock, John

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