equerry
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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
In 1960 Sir John Severne, a retired air vice marshal who was Prince Philip's equerry, used the same plane when he won the King's Cup air race.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 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
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
The Prince and his equerries found themselves early confronted by a mountain of letters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eteoneus left the long room like an arrow, calling equerries after him, on the run.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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