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Pages of Honour in the House of Lords at the 2024 State Opening of Parliament

A Page of Honour is a ceremonial position in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. It requires attendance on state occasions, but does not now involve the daily duties which were once attached to the office of page. The only physical activity involved is usually carrying the long train of the Sovereign's robes. This position is distinct from that of a page in the Royal Household, which is the senior rank of uniformed staff.

Pages of Honour participate in major ceremonies involving the British monarch, including coronations and the State Opening of Parliament. It is usually a distinction granted to teenage sons of members of the nobility and gentry, and especially of senior members of the Royal Household.

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Pages of Honour in England wear a scarlet frock coat with gold trimmings, a white satin waistcoat, white breeches and hose, white gloves, black buckled shoes and a lace cravat and ruffles. A sword is also worn with the outfit and a feathered three-cornered hat is provided.[1] In Scotland the outfit is identical, but in green rather than scarlet (as seen periodically at the Thistle Service in Edinburgh).[2] In Ireland, when Pages of Honour were attendant upon the King, Pages of Honour wore exactly the same uniform as at the English Court, except that the colour was St. Patrick's blue with silver lace.[1]

At coronations, the peers who carry regalia in the procession (and others with particular roles in the service) were expected to have their own pages in attendance. These pages are directed to wear "the same pattern of clothes as the Pages of Honour wear, but of the Livery colour of the Lords they attend... [except that] ...the Royal liveries being scarlet and gold, the use of this combination of colours is restricted to the Pages of Honour, and in the case of a Peer whose colours are scarlet and gold, for scarlet some variant, such as murrey or claret, should be used."[3]

Pages of Honour by monarch

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Charles II

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James II

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William III

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John Brockhuisen appears in the post-mortem accounts of the Board of Green Cloth as a page of honour to William III, but this may be an error, as he appears elsewhere as a pensioner after serving as Queen Mary's page of honour.

Anne

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George I

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George II

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George III

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George IV

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William IV

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Victoria

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Edward VII

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George V

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Edward VIII

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George VI

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Elizabeth II

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Charles III

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The pages of honour at the 2023 coronation were:[46]

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Notes

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  1. ^ Son of Sir Arthur Bigge.
  2. ^ Son of Leslie Davidson and grandson of William Keppel, 7th Earl of Albemarle.
  3. ^ Son of Charles Hay, 20th Earl of Erroll.
  4. ^ Son of Victor Spencer, 1st Viscount Churchill.
  5. ^ Son of Sir Henry Legge.
  6. ^ Son of Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst.
  7. ^ Son of Sir Walter Douglas Somerset Campbell.
  8. ^ Son of Sir Malcolm Donald Murray.
  9. ^ Grandson of Francis Knollys, 1st Viscount Knollys.
  10. ^ Son of the Hon. George Crichton.
  11. ^ Son of Bryan Godfrey-Faussett.
  12. ^ Son of the Hon. Charles Harbord.
  13. ^ Son of the Hon. John Dawnay.
  14. ^ Son of Sir Walter Douglas Somerset Campbell.
  15. ^ Son of Sir Assheton Curzon-Howe.
  16. ^ Great-grandson of Thomas Stonor, 3rd Baron Camoys.
  17. ^ Grandson of George Greville, 4th Earl of Warwick.
  18. ^ Great-grandson of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly.
  19. ^ Son of the Hon. Alec Hardinge.
  20. ^ Son of the Hon. George Crichton.
  21. ^ Son of the Hon. Alec Hardinge.
  22. ^ Son of Lord Eliot.
  23. ^ Son of the Hon. Ben Wilson.
  24. ^ Son of David Ogilvy, 12th Earl of Airlie.
  25. ^ Grandson of William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield.
  26. ^ Grandson of James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn.
  27. ^ Son of the Hon. Alec Hardinge.
  28. ^ Son of James Stuart.
  29. ^ Son of Sir George Paynter.
  30. ^ Son of Lady Clodagh Anson.
  31. ^ Son of Charles Tryon, 2nd Baron Tryon.
  32. ^ Son of George Hardinge, Baron Hardinge of Penshurst.
  33. ^ Son of John Nevill, 5th Marquess of Abergavenny.
  34. ^ Son of Lord Adam Gordon.
  35. ^ Son of Sir Alexander Abel Smith and Lady Abel Smith, a lady-in-waiting to the Queen, and half-brother of Sir Mark Palmer, 5th Baronet, First Page of Honour 1956–1959.
  36. ^ Son of Sir Carron Greig.
  37. ^ Son of Sir Ashley Ponsonby, 2nd Baronet.
  38. ^ Son of Viscount Cecil.
  39. ^ Son of the Hon. James Hamilton.
  40. ^ Son of Lord Ramsay.
  41. ^ Son of Earl of Dalkeith.
  42. ^ Grandson of Sir Blair Stewart-Wilson.
  43. ^ Grandson of Hugh FitzRoy, 11th Duke of Grafton.
  44. ^ Son of the Hon. Rupert Soames.
  45. ^ Son of Viscount Linley.
  46. ^ Great-grandson of Sir Harry Legge-Bourke.
  47. ^ Grandson of William Vanneck, 5th Baron Huntingfield.
  48. ^ Great-great-grandson of Charles Gordon, 10th Marquess of Huntly.
  49. ^ Grandson of Albert Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer.
  50. ^ Son of Sir Harry Legge-Bourke.
  51. ^ Son of Sir Iain Tennant.
  52. ^ Son of David Fane, 15th Earl of Westmorland.
  53. ^ Son of Michael Hicks Beach, 2nd Earl St Aldwyn.
  54. ^ Son of Denys Rhodes and the Hon. Margaret Elphinstone.
  55. ^ Son of Sir Simon Bland.
  56. ^ Son of Sir Charles Loyd.
  57. ^ Son of the Hon. Lachlan Maclean.
  58. ^ Son of Anthony Tryon, 3rd Baron Tryon.
  59. ^ Great-great-great-grandson of Claude Bowes-Lyon, 13th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, and grandson of Sir Jock Colville.
  60. ^ Son of Samuel Vestey, 3rd Baron Vestey.
  61. ^ Son of David Douglas-Home, 15th Earl of Home.
  62. ^ Son of Michael Bowes-Lyon, 18th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
  63. ^ Son of Edward Stanley, 19th Earl of Derby.
  64. ^ Grandson of Adrian Hope, 4th Marquess of Linlithgow.
  65. ^ Grandson of Charles Stanhope, 12th Earl of Harrington.
  66. ^ Grandson of James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn.
  67. ^ Grandson of James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn.
  68. ^ Grandson of Lord Rupert Nevill.
  69. ^ Son of Lady Margaret Hay.
  70. ^ Son of Marmaduke Hussey and Lady Susan Hussey.
  71. ^ Son of Michael Oswald.
  72. ^ Great-great-grandson of Odo Russell, 1st Baron Ampthill.
  73. ^ Grandson of Sir Harry Legge-Bourke.
  74. ^ Son of Archibald Montgomerie, 18th Earl of Eglinton.
  75. ^ Grandson of Rowland Baring, 3rd Earl of Cromer.
  76. ^ Grandson of Timothy Colman.
  77. ^ Son of James Waldegrave, 13th Earl Waldegrave.
  78. ^ Grandson of Marmaduke Hussey, Baron Hussey of North Bradley and Lady Susan Hussey.
  79. ^ Grandson of David Ogilvy, 13th Earl of Airlie.
  80. ^ Son of Daniel Chatto and Lady Sarah Chatto.
  81. ^ Son of Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll.
  82. ^ Son of the Hon. Adam Bruce.
  83. ^ Son of Lady Clodagh Anson.
  84. ^ Son of John Scott, 4th Earl of Eldon.
  85. ^ Son of Sir Guy Russell.
  86. ^ Son of Sir Edward Ford.
  87. ^ Grandson of Sir Piers Legh, Master of the Household 1941–1953.
  88. ^ Son of Sir Jock Colville.
  89. ^ Son of Bernard Gordon Lennox.
  90. ^ Son of Robin Plunket, 8th Baron Plunket.
  91. ^ Son of the Hon. David Lytton Cobbold.
  92. ^ Son of James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn.
  93. ^ Son of Hugh Trenchard, 3rd Viscount Trenchard.
  94. ^ Son of Nicholas Lowther, 2nd Viscount Ullswater.
  95. ^ Son of Earl of Southesk.
  96. ^ Son of Katharine Fraser, 22nd Lady Saltoun.
  97. ^ Grandson of Barry Maxwell, 12th Baron Farnham.
  98. ^ Grandson of Fergus Bowes-Lyon, 17th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne.
  99. ^ Great-great-grandson of Montagu Bertie, 7th Earl of Abingdon, of John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, and of Sidney Elphinstone, 16th Lord Elphinstone.
  100. ^ a b Son of David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of Cholmondeley.
  101. ^ a b Grandson of Sarah Troughton.
  102. ^ a b c Son of the Hon. Edward Tollemache.
  103. ^ a b Son of Charles Tryon, 4th Baron Tryon.
  104. ^ a b Son of William Sackville, Lord Buckhurst.
  105. ^ a b Grandson of Hugh van Cutsem.
  106. ^ Son of Arthur Wellesley, Earl of Mornington.

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  10. ^ "No. 27310". The London Gazette. 3 May 1901. p. 3033.
  11. ^ "No. 27466". The London Gazette. 19 August 1902. p. 5398.
  12. ^ "No. 38255". The London Gazette. 6 April 1948. p. 2215.
  13. ^ "No. 38804". The London Gazette. 3 January 1950. p. 59.
  14. ^ "No. 39430". The London Gazette. 1 January 1952. p. 69.
  15. ^ "No. 38097". The London Gazette. 14 October 1947. p. 4807.
  16. ^ "No. 39161". The London Gazette. 2 March 1951. p. 1104.
  17. ^ a b "No. 37524". The London Gazette. 5 April 1946. p. 1743.
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  22. ^ "No. 40936". The London Gazette. 27 November 1956. p. 6727.
  23. ^ "No. 42610". The London Gazette. 27 February 1962. p. 1681.
  24. ^ "No. 43400". The London Gazette. 4 August 1964. p. 6607.
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  29. ^ a b c "No. 47734". The London Gazette. 2 January 1979. p. 71.
  30. ^ "No. 48481". The London Gazette. 2 January 1981. p. 77.
  31. ^ "No. 49404". The London Gazette. 1 July 1983. p. 8697.
  32. ^ "No. 50474". The London Gazette. 1 April 1986. p. 4495.
  33. ^ "No. 51525". The London Gazette. 8 November 1988. p. 12509.
  34. ^ "No. 52647". The London Gazette. 3 September 1991. p. 13427.
  35. ^ "No. 53836". The London Gazette. 1 November 1994. p. 15279.
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  49. ^ a b c d State Opening of Parliament 2024, Court Circular 17 July 2024.
  50. ^ a b c d State Opening of Parliament 2026, Court Circular 13 May 2026.
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