A Pageant of Monarchy
Pageant type
Performances
Place: Shalford Park (Guildford) (Guildford, Surrey, England)
Year: 1987
Indoors/outdoors: Outdoors
Number of performances: 13
Notes
6-18 July 1987
Name of pageant master and other named staff
- Pageant Master: Clarke, David
Names of executive committee or equivalent
Notes
Sponsored by Grants of St James’s
Names of script-writer(s) and other credited author(s)
Names of composers
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Numbers of performers
1000Plus 100 horses
Financial information
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Linked occasion
Audience information
- Grandstand: Not Known
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Prices of admission and seats: highest–lowest
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Associated events
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Pageant outline
1. Priest Kings and Celtic Rituals
2. Boudicca, Warrior Queen
3. Emperor Carausius at play
4. King Raedwald’s Burial
5. King Oswiu and the Synod of Whitby
6. King Edgar’s Coronation
7. The Confessor’s Death and William I’s arrival
8. Richard I and the Templars/Hospitallers
9. Henry II and Thomas Becket
10. King John and Magna Carta/Robin Hood and Maid Marion
11. Edward III at a Tournament and Fair
12. Henry V in London after Agincourt
13. King Arthur and his Knights
14. Richard III’s Royal Entry into York
15. Henry VIII at archery and at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
16. Queen Elizabeth knights Drake/Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury
17. James I and Pocahontas
18. Execution of Charles I
19. Charles II at a Horse Quadrille
20. George IV at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
21. Queen Victoria in Scotland/Queen Victoria at the Seaside
22. Prince of Wales at the Music Hall/The Prince of Wales at the Duchess of Devonshire’s Ball
23. George V and Queen Mary/Great War
24. George VI, Queen Elizabeth, the Princess/Second World War
25. Grand Finale. 'Monarchy Enthroned'.
Key historical figures mentioned
- Boudicca [Boadicea] (d. AD 60/61) queen of the Iceni
- Carausius [Marcus Aurelius Mausaeus Carausius] (d. 293) Roman emperor in Britain and Gaul
- Rædwald [Redwald] (d. 616x27) king of the East Angles
- Oswiu [Oswy] (611/12–670) king of Northumbria
- Edgar [called Edgar Pacificus] (943/4–975) king of England
- Edward [St Edward; known as Edward the Confessor] (1003x5–1066) king of England
- William I [known as William the Conqueror] (1027/8–1087) king of England and duke of Normandy
- Richard I [called Richard Coeur de Lion, Richard the Lionheart] (1157–1199) king of England, duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and count of Anjou
- Henry II (1133–1189) king of England, duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and count of Anjou
- Becket, Thomas [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London] (1120?–1170) archbishop of Canterbury
- John (1167–1216) king of England, and lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy and of Aquitaine, and count of Anjou
- Hood, Robin (supp. fl. late 12th–13th cent.) legendary outlaw hero
- Edward III (1312–1377) king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
- Henry V (1386–1422) king of England and lord of Ireland, and duke of Aquitaine
- Arthur (supp. fl. in or before 6th cent.) legendary warrior and supposed king of Britain
- Richard III (1452–1485) king of England and lord of Ireland
- Henry VIII (1491–1547) king of England and Ireland
- Elizabeth I (1533–1603) queen of England and Ireland
- Drake, Sir Francis (1540–1596) pirate, sea captain, and explorer
- James VI and I (1566–1625) king of Scotland, England, and Ireland
- Pocahontas [Matoaka, Amonute; married name Rebecca Rolfe] (c.1596–1617) Algonquian Indian princess
- Charles I (1600–1649) king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- Charles II (1630–1685) king of England, Scotland, and Ireland
- George IV (1762–1830) king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and king of Hanover
- Victoria (1819–1901) queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and empress of India
- Edward VII (1841–1910) king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and emperor of India
- Cavendish, Louise Frederica Augusta, duchess of Devonshire [née Countess Louise Friederike Auguste von Alten; other married name Louise Frederica Augusta Montagu, duchess of Manchester] (1832–1911) society figure
- George V (1865–1936) king of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and emperor of India
- Mary [Princess Mary of Teck] (1867–1953) queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and empress of India, consort of George V
- George VI (1895–1952) king of Great Britain, Ireland, and the British dominions beyond the seas, and sometime emperor of India
- Elizabeth II [still alive] (1926-), queen of Great Britain
Musical production
Newspaper coverage of pageant
Book of words
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Other primary published materials
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A Pageant of Monarchy: 6-18 July 1987 Shalford Park, Guildford. Guildford, 1987. [Price £1.]
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Archival holdings connected to pageant
- Surrey History Centre, Woking, Copy of Programme, Reference 8147/4
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Summary
This was one of the many pageants in Surrey produced by David Clarke, who had worked with Christopher Ede on the Guildford pageant of 1957, and had himself produced the 1968 Guildford pageant. Like the 1968 event and another pageant produced by Clarke in 1977, the 1987 ‘pageant of monarchy’ took place in Shalford Park. It was an ambitious event, with 13 stagings of 25 scenes ranging from Celtic times to the twentieth century. Most did not deal specifically with local history: some scenes were set in London, for example, and others at York, Tilbury and Whitby. In keeping with the title of the pageant, all the scenes depicted royal figures, though Robin Hood and Maid Marian also made an appearance.
In 2005, as part of the Guildford Summer Festival, David Clarke staged an exhibition and series of talks about pageantry in the town.1
Footnotes
- ^ ‘Historical Pageantry for 100 Years’: http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/historical-pageantry-for-100-years-4845540 (accessed 1 July 2016).
How to cite this entry
Angela Bartie, Linda Fleming, Mark Freeman, Tom Hulme, Alex Hutton, Paul Readman, ‘A Pageant of Monarchy’, The Redress of the Past, http://www.historicalpageants.ac.uk/pageants/1187/