ABSTRACT
On leaving the Tower of London her procession entered the city at Aldgate and moved on into Fenchurch Street where it was greeted by an instrumental fanfare from a scaffold, richly draped, in the centre of which stood a child who delivered a speech of welcome. Having listened attentively, Elizabeth thanked the child and the citizens assembled round this platform before moving on into Gracechurch Street where an elaborate pageant was erected across the street above a triple-arched gateway. This consisted of three platforms rising one above the other on the lowest of which sat Henry VII and his wife Elizabeth enthroned, respectively, within a red and white rose. The whole pageant, decked out as it was with red and white roses, depicted ‘the uniting of the houses of Lancastre and Yorke’.
