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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).
During the Tudor dynasty (1485–1603), the First Lady of the Bedchamber was called Chief Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. She had the highest rank among the Ladies of the bedchamber, and their role was to act as the attendants and companions of the royal woman.
Pages in category "Ladies of the Privy Chamber" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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]
Elizabeth Wolley (née More; 28 April 1552 – 21 January 1600) was one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies of the Privy Chamber.She was the eldest daughter of Sir William More of Loseley, Surrey, and his second wife, Margaret Daniell, and the wife of the Queen's Latin secretary, Sir John Wolley, and the Queen's Lord Chancellor, Thomas Egerton, 1st Viscount Brackley.
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.
Elizabeth Knollys, Lady Leighton (15 June 1549 – c.1605), [1] was an English courtier who served Queen Elizabeth I of England, first as a Maid of Honour and secondly, after 1566, as a Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. [1] [2] Knollys was the grand-niece of Queen consort Anne Boleyn, which made her a cousin once removed of the Queen.
This page is a list of Lady and Gentleman Ushers of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom from the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 up to the present day.. Gentleman Ushers originally formed three classes: Gentleman Ushers of the Privy Chamber, Gentleman Ushers Daily Waiters and Gentleman Ushers Quarterly Waiters.