lady of the bedchamber
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"Please your majesty," answered a lady of the bedchamber, "it signifies that her imperial majesty, the reigning empress, has returned from her walk in the palace gardens."
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
She crossed her beautiful arms, and bent her head in readiness to receive the chemise, which the lady of the bedchamber was in the act of passing to Madame de Noailles.
From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)
Judith died April 2, 1705, and in the September of the following year the Lord Keeper married Mary Clavering, the beautiful and virtuous lady of the bedchamber to Caroline Wilhelmina Dorothea, Princess of Wales.
From A Book About Lawyers by Jeaffreson, John Cordy
Lady Berkeley is lady of the bedchamber, and Miss Lawson maid of honour.
From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter
“There—I know’d they’d do it!” exclaimed the lady of the bedchamber fiercely; “lie still, cushla! an’ shut your purty eyes.
From The Island Queen by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)
