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

Courtesy of St. Albans Museums.

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The Pageant of Parliament
The Pageant of Parliament, also advertised as ‘Parliament and the People’, was a major pageant-play that took place in the Royal Albert Hall in 1934. It had an extensive run of 24 performances, a c...
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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 Kensington, Middlesex, England
1 Coventry, Warwickshire, England

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2 london
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1 institutional
1 empire

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Person/s with primary responsibility for execution of the pageant

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1 Seeley, Alfred
1 Lascelles, Frank
1 Creighton, Walter

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Names of script-writers and other credited authors

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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 Kipling, Rudyard
1 Hammersley-Heenan, Mr
1 Foster, William
1 Darbyshire, T.
1 Creighton, Walter
1 Blankenberg, Lady

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3 Nelson, Horatio, Viscount Nelson
3 Elizabeth I
3 Edward IV
2 William III and II
2 Shakespeare, William
2 Ralegh, Sir Walter
2 Neville, Richard, sixteenth earl of Warwick and sixth earl of Salisbury [called the Kingmaker]
2 Margaret [Margaret of Anjou]
2 Johnson, Samuel
2 James VI and I
2 Henry VII
2 Elizabeth [Elizabeth of York]
2 Cromwell, Oliver
2 Charles II
2 Caxton, William
2 Catesby, Robert
1 Wykeham, William
1 Wright, John
1 Wolsey, Thomas
1 Wodelarke, Robert
1 Winter [Wintour], Thomas
1 Wilson, Allan
1 White, Sir Thomas
1 Wentworth, Thomas, first earl of Strafford
1 Wentworth, Sir Peter
1 Wentworth, Peter
1 Wellesley [formerly Wesley], Arthur, first duke of Wellington
1 Waynflete [Wainfleet, Patten], William
1 Wakefield, William Hayward
1 Talbot, John, second earl of Shrewsbury and second earl of Waterford
1 Talbot, Gilbert, seventh earl of Shrewsbury
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 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 Savile, George, first marquess of Halifax
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 Pole, John de la, second duke of Suffolk
1 Pitt, William [known as Pitt the younger]
1 Piozzi [née Salusbury; other married name Thrale], Hester Lynch
1 Philippa [Philippa of Hainault]
1 Percy, Thomas
1 Percy, Sir Henry [called Henry Hotspur]
1 Pepys, Samuel
1 Paulet, William, first marquess of Winchester
1 Parker, William, thirteenth Baron Morley and fifth or first Baron Monteagle
1 Park, Mungo
1 Norton, Fletcher, first Baron Grantley
1 Newland [Nailheart], John
1 Mowbray, Thomas
1 Morgan, Sir Henry
1 Mildmay, Sir Walter
1 Merton, Walter of
1 Mary, princess royal
1 Mary [Mary Stewart]
1 Marvell, Andrew
1 Marmion, Robert
1 Marconi, Guglielmo
1 Livingstone, David
1 Leofric, earl of Mercia
1 Lenthall, William, appointed Lord Lenthall under the protectorate
1 Leigh, Thomas, first Baron Leigh
1 Lancaster, Sir James
1 Johnstone, George
1 John [John of Gaunt], duke of Aquitaine and duke of Lancaster, styled king of Castile and León
1 John
1 Jervis, John, earl of St Vincent
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 Hood, Robin
1 Hereward [called Hereward the Wake]
1 Henry VIII
1 Henry VI
1 Henry V
1 Henry IV [known as Henry Bolingbroke]
1 Henry II
1 Henry Frederick, prince of Wales
1 Henrietta Maria [Princess Henrietta Maria of France]
1 Hawke, Edward, first Baron Hawke
1 Harrison, Thomas
1 Hardy, Sir Thomas Masterman, baronet
1 Hamilton [née Lyon], Emma, Lady Hamilton
1 Guy, John
1 Guy of Warwick
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 Fynn, Henry Francis
1 Franklin, Sir John
1 Flemming [Fleming], Richard
1 Fawkes, Guy
1 Erle [Earle], Sir Walter
1 Elizabeth, Princess [Elizabeth Stuart]
1 Eleanor [Eleanor of Provence]
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 Durham, William of
1 Dugdale, Sir William
1 Dudley, Robert, earl of Leicester
1 Drake, Sir Francis
1 Donkin, Sir Rufane Shaw
1 Dickens, Charles John Huffam
1 Dampier, William
1 Cook, James
1 Clare, Elizabeth de [Elizabeth de Burgh; known as lady of Clare]
1 Chichele, Henry
1 Charles I
1 Cecil, Robert, first earl of Salisbury
1 Cavendish, Thomas
1 Cameron, Sir Duncan Alexander
1 Caius [Kay, Key], Thomas
1 Cabot, Sebastian
1 Cabot, John [Zuan Caboto]
1 Brome, Adam
1 Bradshaw, John, Lord Bradshaw
1 Boswell, James
1 Blake, Robert
1 Bingham [Byngham], William
1 Beaufort, Margaret [known as Lady Margaret Beaufort], countess of Richmond and Derby
1 Bateman [Norwich], William
1 Balsham, Hugh of
1 Balliol, Dervorguilla de, lady of Galloway
1 Balliol [Baliol], John de
1 Bagot, Sir William
1 Baffin, William
1 Bacon, Sir Nicholas
1 Bacon, Francis, Viscount St Alban
1 Anson, George, Baron Anson
1 Anne [Anna, Anne of Denmark]
1 Alcock, John

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