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Murder at the Pageant
> The pageant was held, amid great ceremony and pomp, at Frimley Manor, and it featured the reenactment of Queen Anne's visit to the great country estate in 1705. Visitors flocked to see the lavishly costumed affair, especially the ritual carrying of Queen Anne in a sedan chair from the entrance gate of the estate to the front steps of the great house. Mrs. Cresswell, a guest of Sir Harry Lynwood, Lord of Frimley Manor, grandly impersonated the Queen, dazzling the crowd with her spectacular pearl necklace. >But her performance in the sedan chair would soon be upstaged. In the dead of...
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