equerry
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Mr Olney previously worked for the prince as his equerry.
From BBC ● Jan. 31, 2022
Her team wants to depose Robert Ashton Olney, the prince's former royal assistant known as an equerry.
From Fox News ● Jan. 31, 2022
Timothy Spall, as the Windsors’ equerry, in charge of the royal household, and Diana’s newfound nemesis, appears to lurk around every corner, watching and listening.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2021
Consider Peter Townsend, the equerry whose doomed romance with Princess Margaret is depicted in the show’s first season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 18, 2019
The equerry galloped, there was a twinkle of armour among the leafy oaks, and Lot’s mind jumped to the trap.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
She queries the equerries; she tracks down former nannies and ladies-in-waiting.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
The crowd quickened; heads turned left to watch two scarlet-liveried outriders and then three carriages and two equerries clatter out of the gates of the Palace.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2012
Two years later, King George was looking for special equerries to help him keep in closer touch with the armed services.
From Time Magazine Archive
By careful practice he learned to speak so exactly like the Prince of Wales that equerries to the royal brothers vow that with their eyes shut they cannot tell which prince is which.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eteoneus left the long room like an arrow, calling equerries after him, on the run.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
