bedchamber
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The role of lady-in-waiting was typically given to wealthy aristocrats who were not paid a salary but becoming Woman of the Bedchamber was considered an extremely prestigious role.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2022
She was her longest-serving lady-in-waiting - with the title Woman of the Bedchamber - having first been recruited in 1960.
From BBC • Nov. 30, 2022
They include Lady Susan Hussey, 82, who traveled with her in the car to Prince Philip’s funeral last April, as well as Dame Mary Morrison, 85, who has been Woman of the Bedchamber since 1960.
From Fox News • Jan. 3, 2022
The 90-year-old had been the reigning monarch’s Lady of the Bedchamber since 1987 and traveled alongside her on the way to the Diamond Jubilee in 2012 after Prince Philip was hospitalized.
From Fox News • Jan. 3, 2022
We must conclude that the poet was under high patronage from the fact that his volume is introduced by an eulogium written by Simon Macrin, the King's First Gentleman of the Bedchamber.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de
