equerry

Example Sentences

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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

More combative if not entirely unsympathetic is the equerry, Maj.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2021

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

He detached King Carados with a strong squadron to meet King Bars, only to find that a second equerry had sprung King Ban from the opposite side of him.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White