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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Batley Empire Day Pageant
An Empire Day celebrated on Queen Victoria’s birthday had been suggested by Reginald Brabazon, the seventh Earl of Meath in 1896, ‘to nurture a sense of collective identity and imperial responsibil...
The Grand Empire Pageant 1909
The Grand Empire Pageant of 1909 programme was one of several imperial-themed pageants held before 1914, designed to instil patriotism and military values among participants and spectators (see Bat...
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...
Pageant of Empire, Edinburgh
The Women's Guild of Empire was one of many organizations that promoted popular forms of imperialism in the interwar years. Formed sometime after World War I, it was the brainchild of the formidabl...
A Vision of Empire
‘A Vision of Empire’ was commissioned by the Daily Express in 1932 as part of the annual Empire Day celebrations. It was written to be a short pageant of only 30 minutes, conducted at ‘lightning sp...
Pageant of the Church Beyond the Seas
Surrey was a pageant hot-spot in the interwar period—at least as far as smaller-scale pageants were concerned. This is an example of one such pageant. Performed by local schoolchildren in Farnham P...
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...
Bristol: Cradle of Empire
The 1924 Bristol Pageant was dogged both by bad luck and hubris. The event made major losses and proved a sore reminder that, despite Bristol’s perceived historical place as ‘Cradle of Empire’, its...
Pageant of Scottish History; 'The Roadmakers'
The rally of Scouts that took place at Ibrox Park in Glasgow in early June 1938 was described as the largest ever gathering of youth seen in Scotland to date.[1] The occasion that prompted this was...

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1 Wembley, Middlesex, England
1 Sydenham, London, England
1 Sudbrooke, Lincolnshire, England
1 Kensington, Middlesex, England
1 Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland
1 Farnham, Surrey, England
1 Edinburgh, City Of Edinburgh, Scotland
1 Batley, Yorkshire, West Riding, England
1 Ashton Park, Bristol, Somerset, England

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3 Lascelles, Frank
1 Scott, Rev. C.H.
1 Hutton, Miss I.
1 Hirst, George
1 Bryant, Arthur

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4 Elizabeth I
4 Drake, Sir Francis
4 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
3 Cromwell, Oliver
3 Cabot, Sebastian
2 Wolsey, Thomas
2 Roe, Sir Thomas
2 Rhodes, Cecil John
2 Jahangir
2 Hood, Samuel, first Viscount Hood
2 Henry VIII
2 Henry V
2 Gilbert, Sir Humphrey
2 George III
2 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
2 Edward IV
2 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
2 Dampier, William
2 Cook, James
2 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
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 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 I [known as William the Conqueror]
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 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
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 Wallace, Sir William
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 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, 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 Smith [Smyth], William
1 Sir John
1 Shortland, John
1 Shakespeare, William
1 Shaka
1 Selkirk, Alexander
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 Robert I [Robert Bruce]
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
1 Raffles, Sir
1 Radcliffe [née Sidney], Frances, countess of Sussex
1 Pym, John
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 Penn, William
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 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
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 Marshal, William
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 Livingstone, David
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 [Catherine; née Katherine Howard]
1 Katherine [Catalina, Catherine, Katherine of Aragon]
1 Juxon, William
1 Johnson, Samuel
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 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
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
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, Robin
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 III
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hay [née Percy], Lucy, countess of Carlisle
1 Hawkins, Sir John
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 Hampden, John
1 Hamilton, Sir Charles, second baronet
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 Grenville, Sir Richard
1 Grant, James Augustus
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 Fiennes, John, appointed Lord Fiennes under the protectorate
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 III
1 Edward II [Edward of Caernarfon]
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 Dale, Sir Thomas
1 Dacre, Thomas, second Baron Dacre of Gilsland
1 Curtis, Sir Roger, first baronet
1 Coventry [née Gunning], Maria, countess of Coventry
1 Cotton, John
1 Columba [St Columba, Colum Cille]
1 Coffin, Sir Isaac, baronet
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Chaucer, Geoffrey
1 Charles Lewis [Karl Ludwig]
1 Charles II
1 Charles I
1 Charles Edward [Charles Edward Stuart; styled Charles III; known as the Young Pretender, Bonnie Prince Charlie] to the English, Scottish, and Irish thrones
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 Canynges, William
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 Burke, Edmund
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 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 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 Ashton, Sir Ralph
1 Arthur, prince of Wales
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alfred [Ælfred]
1 Alexander I
1 Alcock, John

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