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
More combative if not entirely unsympathetic is the equerry, Maj.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2021
When the time came, Morgan was ushered into the ballroom, where Prince Charles, flanked by an equerry, was handing out the medals.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2019
“Little or nothing to be done till dinner,” one equerry writes of Victoria’s household, “when we all dressed up in knee-breeches and stockings.”
From Washington Post ● Sep. 28, 2018
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
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
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
Eteoneus left the long room like an arrow, calling equerries after him, on the run.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
