equerry
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Timothy Laurence, her lover and a former equerry to the queen.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2022
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
You are correct that if you are in a receiving line on the queen’s home territories, you will receive murmured instructions from an equerry about the behavior expected.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 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
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
The Prince and his equerries found themselves early confronted by a mountain of letters.
From Time Magazine Archive
Two years later, King George was looking for special equerries to help him keep in closer touch with the armed services.
From Time Magazine Archive
Eteoneus left the long room like an arrow, calling equerries after him, on the run.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
