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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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Chester Historical Pageant
In the foreword to the Official Souvenir Book of the pageant, the Master of the Pageant, George Hawtrey, claimed that: ‘Of all the cities in England there is none that binds the life of to-day so c...
The Romsey Pageant
The Romsey Pageant was first mooted in June 1906, in the midst of widespread pageant fever, when local civic dignitaries met to suggest a suitable celebration of the millenary of the founding of Ro...

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1 Romsey, Hampshire, England
1 Chester, Cheshire, England

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2 town

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1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Benson, F.R.

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1 Spurling, Claribel
1 Skrine, J.H.
1 Scott, Walter
1 Moshead, Miss Anderson
1 Morris, Rupert
1 Milton, John
1 Macdonald, S.F.
1 Lovell, A.E.
1 Hawtrey, George P.
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.H.
1 Clay, Beatrice

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1 Tours, Louis
1 Sullivan, Arthur
1 Smart, Henry
1 Richards, T.C.
1 Lawes, William
1 Lawes, Henry
1 Hann, Lewis
1 Flemming, F.
1 Cooke-Yarborough, W.
1 Bridge, Dr J.C.
1 Bateson, Thomas
1 Ambrose, S.

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2 Ælfthryth
2 James VI and I
2 Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus]
2 Charles I
2 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Æthelwold [St Æthelwold, Ethelwold]
1 Æthelstan [Athelstan]
1 Æthelred II [Ethelred; known as Ethelred the Unready]
1 Æthelflæd [Ethelfleda]
1 William II [known as William Rufus]
1 Weston, Sir William
1 Symmons, Edward
1 Richard II
1 Petty, Sir William
1 Percy, Henry, first earl of Northumberland
1 Oswald [St Oswald]
1 Matilda [Edith, Mold, Matilda of Scotland]
1 Lyster, Sir Richard
1 Layton, Richard
1 King James I
1 Kenneth II [Cináed mac Maíl Choluim]
1 Julius Agricola, Gnaeus [known as Agricola]
1 Herbert, Sir Thomas, first baronet
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry I
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Grosvenor, Sir Richard, first baronet
1 Gerald of Wales [Giraldus Cambrensis, Gerald de Barry]
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Castile]
1 Edward [called Edward the Elder]
1 Edward [St Edward; called Edward the Martyr]
1 Edward I
1 Dunstan [St Dunstan]
1 Denewulf
1 Cobbett, John
1 Byron, John, first Baron Byron
1 Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London]
1 Beauchamp, Richard
1 Baldwin [Baldwin of Forde]
1 Avranches, Hugh d', first earl of Chester
1 Anselm [St Anselm]
1 Andrewes, Lancelot

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