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The privy chamber was the most influential department in an English royal household. [1] It contained the king's "privy lodging", consisting of bedroom, library, study, and lavatory. What was known as the chamber was later divided into a privy chamber (distinguished from bedchamber in 1559), and outer chamber (often styled presence chamber).
Under Elizabeth the role was also known as "Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber", for example during Parry's tenure of it. 1558–1565: Kat Ashley; 1565–c.1572: Blanche Parry (as Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber) by 1572: Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham
Elizabeth Somerset was identified as the privy counsellor's sister referenced in the poem after John Hussee, agent of the Lord Deputy of Calais and factotum of Lord Lisle declared "as to the queen’s accusers, my lady of Worcester is said to be the principal."
The historian Treadway Russell Nash mentions a herald's funeral certificate or description for John Habington's wife, who was a gentlewoman of the privy-chamber of Elizabeth in 1557, and was buried at Hindlip at the queen's expense. This lost document must have referred to Dorothy Bradbelt.
In Tudor England, the lady of the Bedchamber was often called Lady of the Privy Chamber. Catherine of Aragon, 1509–1536 ... Elizabeth Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough;
Isabella Markham (28 March 1527 – 20 May 1579), was an English courtier, a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber of Queen Elizabeth I of England and a personal favourite of the queen. Isabella Markham was muse to the court official and poet John Harington (c.1529 - 1582), who wrote sonnets and poems addressed to her, before and after they married.
Katherine peacefully died in the summer of 1565 possibly at the age of 63, to Queen Elizabeth's great distress since her dear friend was not in attendance at court when she died. [17] Parry succeeded her as Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. When on her death bed, Elizabeth continually visited her and mourned her sincerely and unaffectedly ...
Catherine Carey was born in 1524, the daughter of William Carey of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, Gentleman of the Privy Chamber and Esquire of the Body to Henry VIII, and his wife Mary Boleyn, who had once been a mistress of the king. [3] Catherine was thus Elizabeth I's maternal first cousin. [4]