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    Households, First Lady of the Bedchamber is the title of the highest of the ladies of the bedchamber, those holding the official position of personal attendants...
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    Lady of the Bedchamber is the title of a lady-in-waiting holding the official position of personal attendant on a British queen regnant or queen consort...
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    During the 17th and 18th centuries, this role often overlapped with or was replaced as first lady of the bedchamber. In modern times, the mistress of the robes...
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    The Bedchamber crisis was a constitutional crisis that occurred in the United Kingdom between 1839 and 1841. It began after Whig politician William Lamb...
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    the period of the Tudor court. The ladies-in-waiting were headed by the mistress of the robes, followed in rank by the first lady of the bedchamber,...
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    Restoration of the Monarchy) was invariably coupled with that of First Gentleman (or Lady) of the Bedchamber; as effective Head of the royal Bedchamber, the Groom...
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    Susan Feilding, Countess of Denbigh (née Villiers; 1583–1652) was an English courtier. She was First Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Henrietta Maria from...
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    Howard of Effingham, Lord High Admiral of England, and first Earl of Nottingham (1597). Catherine was appointed First Lady of the Bedchamber by 1572...
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    restored to favour at the accession of King George I in 1714. Subsequently Diana became the first lady of the bedchamber and Groom of the Stool to George I's...
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    both Lady Knollys and Dame Catherine Knollys, (c. 1524 – 15 January 1569), was chief Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I, who was her first cousin...
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  • Earl of Suffolk. She served as First Lady of the Bedchamber for the queen of England, Catherine of Braganza, from 1660–81. She was the daughter of Sir...
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    Kat Ashley (category First Ladies of the Bedchamber)
    Ashley or Astley, was the first close friend, governess, and Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth I of England. She was the aunt of Catherine Champernowne...
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    lover, Lady Archibald Hamilton, employed as her First Lady of the Bedchamber, after convincing Augusta that there was no truth in the rumour of his affair...
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    of North Bradley, GCVO (née Waldegrave; born 1 May 1939), known as Lady Susan Hussey, is a British noblewoman who served as a Woman of the Bedchamber...
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    mistress to Frederick, Prince of Wales and First Lady of the Bedchamber, Mistress of the Robes and Privy Purse to his wife, Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. On 29 September...
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  • Bedchamber, and the Kings of Arms. It was headed by the "Camarera mayor de Palacio" (First Lady of the Bedchamber) to the Queen who was in charge of the...
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    of Kent. Abigail was befriended by her first cousin Sarah Jennings, or Lady Churchill (as the duchess was then known), who was Lady of the Bedchamber...
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    grandfather the King, the Duke of Newcastle (Lord Chamberlain of the King's Household) and the Duchess of St Albans (First Lady of the Bedchamber to his mother)...
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    Camarera mayor de Palacio (category Monarchy of Spain)
    The Camarera mayor de Palacio (First Lady of the Bedchamber) was a court official of the Royal Household and Heritage of the Crown of Spain, who was in...
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  • 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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  • Thumbnail for Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset
    she served as Groom of the Stole and First Lady of the Bedchamber at the court of Queen Anne. Following his wife's death in 1722 the Duke developed a romantic...
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    of Richmond (née Cadogan; 18 September 1705 – 25 August 1751), was Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Caroline from 1724 to 1737. She was the mother of the...
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    was publicly exonerated of any crime in relation with the attempted escape. Marie Antoinette's first Lady of the Bedchamber, Jeanne-Louise-Henriette...
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    Hatton and Lady Cecilia Tufton, daughter of 2nd Earl of Thanet. She was appointed a Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary II in 1691. By his second wife...
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    Countess of Clarendon (died 17 July 1700) was an English courtier, notable as First Lady of the Bedchamber to Princess Anne, the future Queen Anne of Great...
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    Caulfeild, Countess of Charlemont (née Bermingham; 1780–1876) was an Anglo-Irish courtier. She was the first Lady of the Bedchamber appointed by Queen...
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    Swallowfield Park, Berkshire, where he rebuilt the house. Later she was First Lady of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne. Queen Anne later took a dislike to...
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    memoirs, Madame Campan, the Queen's First Lady of the Bedchamber, recounted that the Queen had finally abandoned all pretence of being pleasant to Vaudreuil...
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    sister as First Lady of the Bedchamber. Among the nobility present at the Queen's coronation was John Welles, 1st Viscount Welles, heir to the ancient Welles...
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    Dame d'atours (category Pages using the Phonos extension)
    Luçay First Lady of the Bedchamber, British equivalent Maid of the Bedchamber Caroline zum Kolk, "The Household of the Queen of France in the Sixteenth...
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