Cebu Carnival Queens Philippines from 1914–1941

I wrote a blog about Cebu Car­ni­val Queens — click here https://cbrainard.blogspot.com/2022/01/cebu-carnival-queens-philippines-from.html

I did research for a cou­ple of arti­cles about Cebu’s Car­ni­val Queens. Here’s the link to Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino, which pub­lished the arti­cle. In a nut­shell, Cebu cel­e­brat­ed the Car­ni­val sim­i­lar to that in Mani­la. While Mani­la’s Car­ni­val start­ed in 1908, Cebu start­ed in 1914.

The Car­ni­val was an extra­van­gan­za that includ­ed cir­cus; parades; exhibits; vaude­villes; mil­i­tary dis­plays; come­dies; com­parsas; cos­tume and mas­quer­ade balls, includ­ing the pop­u­lar Children’s Fan­cy Dress Ball. But the high­light was the coro­na­tion of the Car­ni­val Queen. Before the queen’s crown­ing how­ev­er, there was a huge buildup, start­ing with the recruit­ment of the can­di­dates, judg­ing or count­ing of bal­lots, and so on. The Car­ni­val Queen events were the­mat­ic (Ara­bic, Greek, Hin­du, Egypt­ian, Chi­nese, etc.) allow­ing for exot­ic and extrav­a­gant cos­tumes for all, includ­ing the queen’s court, which had a king con­sort, damas (maids of hon­or), and some­times page boys and attend­ing girls. Since there were night­ly events, par­tic­i­pants need­ed many outfits.

 My arti­cles will pro­vide more infor­ma­tion and I will pro­vide the links lat­er on, but here are the Cebu’s Car­ni­val Queens from 1914–1941.  Thanks to the help of Alex Cas­tro who has blogs about the Philip­pine Car­ni­val. includ­ing Cebu Car­ni­vals.  If you have pic­tures of Cebu Car­ni­val Queens, please let me know.

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