lady-in-waiting
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Lady Pamela, a lady-in-waiting to the late Queen, was the daughter of Louis Mountbatten and a cousin of Prince Phillip.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2026
The lady-in-waiting, Susan Hussey, resigned and later offered a face-to-face apology to Ms. Fulani.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
She once gave an expensive watch to a lady-in-waiting who’d been late to an engagement — a not-so-subtle hint to be on time.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2023
Widely considered the world’s first novel, Genji was composed in the eleventh century by Murasaki Shikibu, a noblewoman and lady-in-waiting in the Heian Court.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
In the afternoon of her first day in Chicago, Tuesday, June 6, the infanta had slipped out of her hotel incognito, accompanied by her lady-in-waiting and an aide appointed by President Cleveland.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The silk dresses along the walls are like ghostly ladies-in-waiting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 8, 2026
Some of Charlotte’s ladies-in-waiting even complained to the king about their punishing working conditions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2023
I read all her books, all her poems, all her diaries as well as the diaries of her daughter and her ladies-in-waiting to really get as close as I can to anything like the reality.
From Salon ● Jan. 11, 2023
It includes communications secretaries, ladies-in-waiting, and a passel of junior aides who jockey on behalf of their royal bosses, sometimes to the detriment of other family members.
From New York Times ● Jan. 10, 2023
On our later trips, we’d sleep in a sumptuous bedroom suite on the ground floor of the palace, looked after by liveried footmen and ladies-in-waiting.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
