of the Bedchamber was a courtier in the Royal Household, the term being first used in 1718. The duties of the Lords and Gentlemen of the Bedchamber originally...
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palaces, as the Bedchamber was concerned with the innermost; the Bedchamber, focused on the most direct and intimate aspects of the lives of the royal family...
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Lord Chamberlain (redirect from Lord Chamberlain of the Household)
visitors, terminating in the royal bedchamber (although the bedchamber itself came to operate semi-autonomously under the Groom of the Stool/Stole). His department...
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Gentleman Usher (redirect from Gentlemen Ushers)
supervise the Grooms who swept the floors of the royal lodging, and laid straw and matts. They waited in the Privy Chamber the door of the King's bedchamber. They...
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Gunpowder Plot (redirect from Attempted assassination of James VI and I)
decades of religious persecution. The plan was to blow up the House of Lords during the State Opening of Parliament on Tuesday 5 November 1605, as the prelude...
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David Rizzio (category Burials at the Canongate Kirkyard)
to the report of a French diplomat, Paul de Foix, Darnley discovered Rizzio in the closet of Mary's bedchamber at Holyrood house in the middle of the night...
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Clifton of Leighton Bromswold in the Peerage of England. Lord Darnley served as a Lord of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Prince of Wales, but died unmarried in...
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17 August – Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, 91, American-born British aristocrat, lady of the bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II (1973–2022). 19 August...
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whips in the House of Commons. In the House of Lords, the Government Chief Whip is usually appointed Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms and the Deputy Chief...
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past fifty. In February 1830, Lord Graves, Ernest's lord of the bedchamber and comptroller of his household, wrote a note to his wife expressing his confidence...
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proposing the formation of what would become the Gentlemen at Arms. The proposal contains this statement for a precedent: the most noble and memory worthy...
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seven of them in his bedroom. Robert Bruce (later Earl of Ailesbury), a Gentleman of the Bedchamber, complained that the continual noise of the clocks...
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years: another brother Charles Churchill, had been one of his gentlemen of the bedchamber in Denmark, and Marlborough had accompanied George on his journey...
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Leader of the House of Commons, bearing the Sword of State The Lord True, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords The Lord Carrington...
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was raised to the peerage as Lord Powlett and sat in the House of Lords. Powlett was born in 1685 at Chawton, Hampshire, the eldest son of Charles Paulet...
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George IV (redirect from George IV of the United Kingdom and Hanover)
100 drops of laudanum before state occasions. By the spring of 1830, George's imminent end was apparent. Now largely confined to his bedchambers, having...
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the King's favourite minister, who procured his appointment as Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales. In 1715, Stanhope entered the House of Commons...
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Henry Digby, 1st Earl Digby (category Lords of the Admiralty)
Digby, a Groom of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales from 1751 to 1753. His paternal grandparents were William Digby, 5th Baron Digby, and Lady Jane Noel...
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Duchess of Richmond, the Duchess of Cleveland, and other ladies, was introduced by the Duke of Richmond into the king's bedchamber, where the countess...
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you to make the best of a situation unfortunate for us both." In June, Lady Jersey resigned as Caroline's Lady of the Bedchamber. George and Caroline were...
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during the king's unusual, long-lasting, mental health latter-life illness he was deprived of his office as Gentleman of the Bedchamber in 1789, and for...
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Drayton House (section The de Veres, later de Draytons)
Gentleman of the Bedchamber, and Groom of the Stole to the Duke of York. He was also chosen to arrange the marriage of Mary of Modena with the Duke of York...
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veiled and "reverently" laid in bed, while Arthur, "in his shirt, with a gown cast about him," was escorted by his gentlemen into the bedchamber as viols...
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Lord Charles Spencer (category Lords of the Admiralty)
General from 1801 to 1806 and Master of the Mint in 1806. From 1806 until his death, he was a Gentleman of the Bedchamber to George III. On 2 October...
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Pitt one of his Grooms of the Bedchamber as a reward. In this new position Pitt's hostility to the government did not in any degree relax, and his oratorical...
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bedding the Duchess. Angered, Lussurioso rushes off to find Spurio and bursts into the ducal bedchamber, only to find his father lawfully in bed with the Duchess...
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Second Melbourne ministry (category 1835 establishments in the United Kingdom)
known as the Bedchamber Crisis, and led to Peel's refusal to form a government. Melbourne therefore resumed, and continued in office until the Conservatives...
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Journal of the House of Lords. Vol. 4: 1629-1642. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1830 – via British History Online. Chronological Table of and Index...
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one of the two chief gentlemen of the bedchamber. He became close enough to Denny to borrow money from him. He painted Denny's portrait in 1541 and two...
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James Waldegrave, 1st Earl Waldegrave (category Members of the Privy Council of Great Britain)
House of Lords. He was briefly a Lord of the Bedchamber in 1723 and again from 1730 to 1741. He was ambassador extraordinary to France in 1725 and Ambassador...
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