Royal Courtiers, Ladies in Waiting, Staff, etc


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CyrilVladisla said:
The harsh treatment of Queen Elizabeth I's lady in waiting Lady Mary Dudley
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Lady Mary Dudley and her Sir Henry Sidney resided in Ireland from 1556 under Queen Mary as Sir Henry accompanied the Lord Deputy of Ireland .
Queen Mary was also a godmother godmother to their daughter Mary Margaret Sidney.
The Couple returned to England in 1559 under Queen Elizabeth.
 
Elizabeth of Denton was one of Queen Elizabeth of York's ladies at Court.
Anne Hastings, daughter of Sir William Hastings, married to George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury was a lady in waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon.
 
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Elizabeth of Denton was one of Queen Elizabeth of York's ladies at Court.
Anne Hastings, daughter of Sir William Hastings, married to George Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury was a lady in waiting to Queen Catherine of Aragon.
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Lady Anne Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury died in 1520 and had served as a lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon.
Her remains are buried beside her husband and his first wife at Sheffield Cathedral (formerly Church of St. Peter and St. Paul).https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/df/Anne_Hastings_Portrait.jpg
 
Who currently holds these positions:

United Kingdom: Lord Chamberlain - Andrew Parker, Baron Parker of Minsmere

Spain: Head of the House of His Majesty the King - Camilo Villarino

Denmark: Court Marshal - Christian Schønau

Sweden: Marshal of the Kingdom - Fredrik Wersäll

Norway: Head of the Court - Olav Heian-Engda

Belgium: Secretary General of the House of His Majesty the King - Dominique Mineur

Netherlands: Grand Master of the Court - Chris Breedveld

Luxembourg: Court Marshal - Paul Dühr
 
Claude Catherine de Clermont,Duchess de Retz was a lady in waiting to Catherine de Médicis and then was appointed as lady in waiting Marguerite de Valois and layer to Louise de Lorraine ,queen of Henri III.
The duchess was a close confidant of Queen Catherine and was involved in many of the French Court intrigues at the behest of the queen Regent.

Françoise de Brézé was a lady in waiting to Catherine de Médicis from 1547 to 1559.
She was the daughter of Diane de Poitiers.
In 1538 Françoise was married to Robert IV de La Marck,Prince de Sedan and Duke de Bouillon.
 
Charlotte Canning, Countess Canning was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria of England. Her position was Lady of the Bedchamber. The years were 1842 to 1855. She accompanied Queen Victoria to Balmoral.
 
CyrilVladisla said:
Charlotte Canning, Countess Canning was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Victoria of England. Her position was Lady of the Bedchamber. The years were 1842 to 1855. She accompanied Queen Victoria to Balmoral.
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Lady Canning died of malaria whilst in India in 1861 ,her husband was the Viceroy of India at the time.
 
An Ard Ri said:
Lady Pamela was a bridesmaid to then-Princess Elizabeth at her wedding and her lady in waiting and was with the Princess in Kenya when the king died in 1952!
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She must be the only one left now from that journey ? 🤔

She is really the last woman standing from the royals/royal connected born in the 1920:s…

And still a great source of information, according to India Hicks lovely videos with her..
 
Hans-Rickard said:
She must be the only one left now from that journey ? 🤔

She is really the last woman standing from the royals/royal connected born in the 1920:s…

And still a great source of information, according to India Hicks lovely videos with her..
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The video of Lady Pamela are a favourite of mine too,she's a hoot!

Madeleine de Savoie was the wife of the French Catholic Royalist commander ,the Duke de Montmorency.
The duchess who was the niece of Louise de Savovie (mother of Francis I ) held the postion of First Lady in Waiting to the Queen of France.
Madeleine died in 1586 towards the end of the reign of the House of Valois.

 
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Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan, Princess of Guéméné was the Royal Governess to Madame Royale (daughter of Louis XVI)
In 1790 she was forced to flee France with her family.
Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan with Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France/Madame Royale


The Grand Chamberlain of France was the equivalent of the Office of the UK's Lord Chamberlain.
The Office was established in 1545 by François Ier and it was abolished in 1789 ,the last Office holder before the Revolution was Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne,Duc de Bouillon.
It was later briefly revived from 1814 to 1830.
 
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Hello, i have a question about these lady's who get these (title ) at the court. I am very busy with the Dynasty of the Romanov's and you have a wikipedia website (in English and Russian ) List of State Ladies of Imperial Russia - Wikipedia
i ask my self what is de differents between the two ? because with some perseon's there stand that she is Maid of Honor but somewhere else she is Lady in Waiting..

Jan
 
According to the explanation on wikipedia itself - on the page of the maids of honor - the state ladies/ladies in waiting had a higher position than the maids of honor at court. So, the ladies in waiting ate the senior attendants to the queen and the maids of honor the more junior attendants. So, in time of course it is possible that some who starts as maid of honor is later appointed as lady in waiting.
 
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According to the explanation on wikipedia itself - on the page of the maids of honor - the state ladies/ladies in waiting had a higher position than the maids of honor at court. So, the ladies in waiting ate the senior attendants to the queen and the maids of honor the more junior attendants. So, in time of course it is possible that some who starts as maid of honor is later appointed as lady in waiting.
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If you look for the descriptions with the two links ad then it's for me not sure when use when.



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The title was given to unmarried women When appointed as a maid of honor, a girl received a " cipher ", that is, a monogram decorated with diamonds of the royal personage whose retinue she entered. When they got married, this title was removed from them, but they retained the right to be presented to the empress and receive invitations to court ceremonies and balls in the Great Hall of the Winter Palace together with their husbands, regardless of their rank

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Maid of honor was the most frequently granted title (1881: 189 maids of honor out of 203 court ladies with titles; 1914: 261 out of 280). Only unmarried women could be ladies-in-waiting and chambermaids. Only a few of them were given a higher title upon marriage; the rest were expelled from the court upon marriage. In 1826, Nicholas I established a set of maids of honor - 36 people. Some of the "complete" maids of honor were appointed to "serve" the empresses, grand duchesses and grand princesses (these maids of honor were called retinue ). Educators of the grand duchesses were appointed from the retinue of maids of honor.
 
It were two distinct functions, so it depended on whether they had been appointed one or the other.
 
Sophia Stepanovna Razumovskaya (1746-1803) served as maid of honor to Empress Catherine II of Russia.
 
The Honourable Mrs. Little Gilmour was a lady in waiting to Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.
Victoria Gilmour was the daughter of Viscount Chelsea and granddaughter of the 5th Earl Cadogan.
Her husband was John Little Gilmour.
 
Madame Claire Gravier de Vergennes de Remusat (1780-1821) became dame du palais (a lady in waiting) to Empress Josephine of France in 1802.
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Madame de Rémusat - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Claire lisabeth Jeanne Gravier de Vergennes de Rmusat (5 January 1780 16 December 1821) was a French woman of letters. She married at sixteen, and was attached to the Empress Josephine as dame du palais in 1802. Talleyrand was among her admirers, and she was generally regarded as a woman of grea
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In 1546 Princess Mary and Princess Elizabeth of England were invited to Court to live with Queen Catherine Parr as ladies in waiting and act as her companions.
 
Eva Aurora Charlotta Stjernvall who was born at Ulvila in Finland in 1808 went onto become a Lady in waiting to two consecutive Russia Empress's ,Maria Feodorovna and Alexandra Feodorovna.
Eva married Prince Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov in 1836 and was fluent in Finnish , Swedish and Russian.
 
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Eva Aurora Charlotta Stjernvall who was born at Ulvila in Finland in 1808 went onto become a Lady in waiting to two consecutive Russia Empress's ,Maria Feodorovna and Alexandra Feodorovna.
Eva married Prince Pavel Nikolaievich Demidov in 1836 and was fluent in Finnish , Swedish and Russian.
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The couple are the great-grandparents of Prince Paul of Yugoslavia.
 
Rudolph Fielding (Viscount Fielding from 1865 to 1892) then 9th Earl of Denbigh, 8th Earl of Desmond was a Lord-in-waiting to Queen Victoria and King Edward VII from 1897 to 1905.
 
Information about the ladies-in-waiting of the British Royal Family.
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We recently received some questions asking what the heck a Lady-in-Waiting is, what the heck it is that these ladies do, and who some of them are. Hopefully this post sheds some light! Simply put, …
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