Dame Susan Langley leads historic Lady Mayor’s Show through the City of London

BGUK_3411280 - The 697th Lord Mayor of London is Dame Susan Langley DBE, of the Aldgate ward. She is only the third woman to hold the post in over 800 years, and the first ever to be titled the ‘Lady Mayor of London’. The new Lady Mayor took office in the Silent Ceremony on November 7th, then today the Lady Mayor’s Procession conveyed her to Westminster to swear loyalty to the crown. The 2025 Show has over 7000 participants from all over the world in a procession more than three miles long. The Lord Mayor’s Show is the oldest, longest, best loved and least-rehearsed civic procession in the world. It dates back to the early 13th century when King John granted that the City of London could appoint its own Mayor, but required that each newly-elected Mayor should travel upriver to distant Westminster and pledge his loyalty to the King. The Mayors have made that journey for over 800 years and around it has grown the noisy, colourful, joyous procession that over the centuries became known as the Lord Mayor’s Show.