Mary's Lady-in-waiting

[SaxeundGotha]

Does anyone have a clear pic of the monogram that the different ladies in waiting wear? What material are they made of?
In russia the imperial monogram was in diamonds (a friend of mine just sent me a pic of a most-beautiful one... I have to scan it in the proper thread, and I'll link it here, in case anyone should like to see that one also...)

[princess olga]

Originally Posted by Adry

Caroline Heering took the place that Countess Victoria had as Princess Mary lady in waiting

It seems that the Danish princesses (Alex & Mary) both chose people from their age groups, from their own generation, to be their ladies-in-waiting. Good for them, I'd have done exactly the same. In contrast, if I remember correctly, Maxima of the Netherlands's lady in waiting is a woman 'of a certain age', closer seemingly in age to Maxima's mother in law than to Maxima herself.

Which makes me wonder, and I guess it's different for each royal house, how the various members of royal families, especially the 'newer' ones like Mary, pick their person-in-waiting? Wonder what the process is, etc.
Sorry if this has b een asked before, but I'm just curious.

Especially as princess Alexandra once remarked in an interview how lonely the job can be, hence how nice it is one can share it with a sort-of colleague-on-the-job, i.e. the lady-in-waiting. So in other words, to these princesses, having a lady in waiting who they can relate to, seems critical.

[H.M. Margrethe]

Originally Posted by Empress

Does she replace Victoria as a lady in waiting, or does Mary now have 2 ladies in waiting?

Yes has has replacede Victoria as lady in waiting for CP Mary.

magnik the blue ribbon you se on the left side on Caroline Heering jacket is CP Marys personly monogram.

[Kelly]

She is younger and has vibrant red hair. How well does she get along with Mary?

[SaxeundGotha]

They must get along very well... otherwise I doubt that the new lady in waiting (apart from her quite pretty and attention grabbing red-hair) has worn, at least on some of the pictures posted here, more colorful outfits than the Crown Princess....Ussually, a lady-in-waiting will wear something less elaborate or colorful than who she attends: in more lay-man's terms: the brides' maids shouldn't upstage the bride... or however that saying goes... :)Princess Mary is hard to upstage, because not only is she given the place and precedence in all events, but she does look quite beautiful in her own right - however, I would have to say that her new lady-in-waiting should perhaps tone it down a bit to the more discreet glamour of the CPss... I do imagine, however, that they must have a good relationship. From what I understand, Mrs. Herring is the wife of the CP's friend - I imagine they must have met and shared "off-duty" time together and become friends before the appointment... hopefully they have a good run :)PS What-ever did happen to the elegant previous hofdame though? Was her term of service up? Did she resign? Is she on a rota with the new hofdame and will come again into service every-other year? Hope someone has a bit of info on the matter...PSS Is this a paid job or merely honorary and having a stipendium for incurred expenses?

[SaxeundGotha]

Oh, here's the link to the pictures of the cypher/monograms of the demoiselles d'honneur of Russia: History, Court, Culture and Art

[magnik]

Originally Posted by H.M. Margrethe

magnik the blue ribbon you se on the left side on Caroline Heering jacket is CP Marys personly monogram.

Thank you H.M. Margrethe. Have you or anyone closer picture of it?

[Empress]

according to the Danis Royal website, Victoria is still a lady in waiting. (The danish part of the website has this)

[H.M. Margrethe]

Originally Posted by Empress

according to the Danis Royal website, Victoria is still a lady in waiting. (The danish part of the website has this)

Ther is somthing i don´t understand then....because according to CP Mary´s and CP Frederiks website it says that CP Marys lady in waiting is from the 1/3-06 Caroline Heering.

[carlota]

Originally Posted by princess olga

It seems that the Danish princesses (Alex & Mary) both chose people from their age groups, from their own generation, to be their ladies-in-waiting. Good for them, I'd have done exactly the same. In contrast, if I remember correctly, Maxima of the Netherlands's lady in waiting is a woman 'of a certain age', closer seemingly in age to Maxima's mother in law than to Maxima herself.

Which makes me wonder, and I guess it's different for each royal house, how the various members of royal families, especially the 'newer' ones like Mary, pick their person-in-waiting? Wonder what the process is, etc.
Sorry if this has b een asked before, but I'm just curious.

i think it depends to each royal house how ladies in waiting are chosen. i think maxima, for example, always had this woman of certain age with her, just as mary had hofdame victoria before caroline. i guess some houses allow the princesses to choose their l-i-w after they have for a certain time the ones the king/queen chooses, or some other princesses just stay with the assigned one for a long time (or at least until they are queens consort, and they can choose their own ones by themselves). again, it all depends on which court we are talking about. i guess if they were all allowed to choose them, practically all of them would choose young l-i-w...

[Eliza]

Do we know the reason why the previous lady in waiting left - Victoria?
Is it a common practice that each lady in waiting only serves for a few years and moves on?

[kaydura0717]

I think they rotate but I'm not so sure.

[Queen Zenobia]

I found exellent information on ladies in waiting in Wikipedia.com. It even mentions famous/notable ladies in waiting. Here is the link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_in_waiting

[UserDane]

Originally Posted by Eliza

Do we know the reason why the previous lady in waiting left - Victoria?
Is it a common practice that each lady in waiting only serves for a few years and moves on?

It seems to differ; I think that QMII has (have) had ladies in waiting who have been with her for many years. In this link http://www.kongehuset.dk/artikel.php...aktuelt_presse (sorry, only in Danish) you can read that QMII's younger sister Benedicte just had a new L-I-W announced this January. Her former L-I-W had been with her since 1990.
I cannot be sure, but I would guess that Mary's first L-I-W was a deliberate choice, perhaps by QMII, as being the one to sort of ease Mary into the type of engagements she will be doing and that Mary would then eventually choose one herself - just like QMII and her sister Benedikte do.
Victoria may also have wanted to only carry out this job for a limited period.

[wiwaxia]

Originally Posted by UserDane

Victoria may also have wanted to only carry out this job for a limited period.

Understandable really.

[Warren]

I have moved the posts discussing the Monograms of the Danish Royal Family to the (renamed) Danish Orders & Monograms thread.

Warren
Danish Forums moderator

[galuhcandrakirana]

Mary's new lady in waiting looks gorgeouse in this very short clips She also seems to know what/when she should wear. I think she has a "model looked", if I don't know who is the royal I will spot her with her red head and a good silhouete before spot on Mary. http://www.infocast.dk/eb/mediamaker.php?id=2020 (post by Larzen). I think Mary is happy to have a new LIW who is not very diffrent in age and has simmilar situation (mother of young infant) and perhaps they have same interest in fashion thing. BTW, does anybody know how tall she is?

[stellad]

I read elsewhere that Victoria's job was only going to be for 2 years.

Stellad

[Lasse Pedersen]

Originally Posted by H.M. Margrethe

Ther is somthing i don´t understand then....because according to CP Mary´s and CP Frederiks website it says that CP Marys lady in waiting is from the 1/3-06 Caroline Heering.

Mrs. Heering was appointed lady-in-waiting on March 1. Mrs. Bernstorff-Gyldensteen resigns from her position on April 30, just as it has been planned since her appointment two years ago.

For more excellent indepth information on both ladies-in-waiting, go to the magnificent site of Danish Royal Watchers: http://danishroyalwatchers.blogspot.com/ (read post: "Changeover of Mary's lady-in-waiting")

/Lasse Pedersen

[Lady Jean]

Thank you for posting the link to the blogspot. It's great!