Lady of the Bedchamber

Lady of the Bedchamber

This is an "incomplete" list of those who have served as Lady of the Bedchamber in the British Royal Household. See also "Ladies-in-Waiting", "Women of the Bedchamber" and "Mistress of the Robes".

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Elizabeth I, 1558-1603

*1558–1565: Katherine Ashley ("née" Champernowne)
*1559–1569: Catherine Carey

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Catherine of Braganza, 1662-1688

*1663–1688: Mary Villiers, Duchess of Buckingham
*1663–1688: Jane Granville, Countess of Bath
*1663–1681: Barbara Howard, Countess of Suffolk
*1663–1673: Barbara Palmer, Countess of Castlemaine
*1663–1667: Katherine Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne, 1704-1714=

*1704–1714: Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham
*Anne Venables-Bertie, Countess of Abingdon
*1704–1712: Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales, later Queen Caroline, 1714-1737 [ [http://www.history.ac.uk/office/caroline.html Institute of Historical Research] ] [ [http://www.history.ac.uk/office/queencaroline.html Institute of Historical Research] ] =

*1714–1737: Elizabeth Sackville, Duchess of Dorset
*1714–1717: Louisa Berkeley, Countess of Berkeley
*1714–1717 & 1726: Diana Beauclerk, Duchess of St Albans
*1714–1717: Henrietta Paulet, Duchess of Bolton
*1714–1717: Mary Montagu, Duchess of Montagu
*1714–1724: Mary Cowper, Countess Cowper
*1714–1726: Adelaide Talbot, Duchess of Shrewsbury
*1717: Elizabeth Seymour, Viscountess Hinchingbrooke
*1718–1722: Barbara Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
*1718–1724: Henrietta d'Auverquerque, Countess of Grantham
*1718–1737: Elizabeth Hervey, Countess of Bristol
*1718–1720: Anne Scott, Countess of Deloraine
*1722: Jane Capell, Countess of Essex
*1724–1737: Frances Seymour, Countess of Hertford
*1724–1737: Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond
*1725–1737: Anne van Keppel, Countess of Albemarle
*1725–1737: Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret
*?–1737: Mary Pembroke, Countess of Pembroke (extra)
*?–1737: Dorothy Herbert, Countess of Cork (extra)

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Augusta, Princess of Wales, 1736-1763 [ [http://www.history.ac.uk/office/augusta.html Institute of Historical Research] ]

*1736: Annie Howard, Countess of Effingham
*1736–1764: Anne Ingram, Viscountess Irvine
*1736–1739 & 1742–1759: Charlotte Byng, Viscountess Torrington
*1737–1772: Lady Charlotte Edwyn
*1743–1772: Frances Lumley-Saunderson, Countess of Scarbrough
*1743–1772: Maria Howe, Viscountess Howe
*1745–1772: Elizabeth Berkeley, Countess Berkeley


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Charlotte, 1761-1818 [ [http://www.history.ac.uk/office/queencharlotte.html Institute of Historical Research] ] =

*1761–1784: Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Hamilton (Duchess of Argyll from 1770)
*1761–1791: Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham
*1761–1770: Elizabeth Percy, Countess of Northumberland (Duchess of Northumberland from 1766)
*1761–1794: Alicia Wyndham, Countess of Egremont
*1761–1793: Elizabeth Thynne, Viscountess Weymouth (Marchioness of Bath from 1789)
*1761–1768: Diana St John, Viscountess Bolingbroke
*1768–1782: Isabella Seymour, Countess of Hertford
*1770–1801: Mary Darcy, Countess of Holderness
*1783–1818: Elizabeth Herbert, Countess of Pembroke and Montgomery
*1784–1818: Elizabeth Harcourt, Countess Harcourt
*1791–1818: Elizabeth Townshend, Viscountess Sydney
*1793–1807: Elizabeth Brudenell, Countess of Cardigan
*1794–1818: Jane Stanhope, Countess of Harrington
*1801–1818: Mary Parker, Countess of Macclesfield
*1807–1813: Henrietta Stanhope, Countess of Chesterfield
*1813–1818: Anne Dundas, Viscountess Melville


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Adelaide, 1830-1837 [ [http://www.history.ac.uk/office/queenade.html Institute of Historical Research] ] =

*1830–1837: Emily Nugent, Marchioness of Westmeath
*1830–1837: Arabella Bourke, Countess of Mayo
*1830–1849: Marianne Wellesley, Countess of Mornington
*1830–1834: Anna Loftus, Marchioness of Ely (extra 1834-1837)
*1830–1837: Emma Brownlow, Countess Brownlow
*1830–1837: Lady Harriet Clinton
*1833–1836: Harriet Howe, Countess Howe
*1836–1837: Harriet Baker-Holroyd, Countess of Sheffield


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Victoria, 1837-1901 [ [http://www.history.ac.uk/office/vic.html Institute of Historical Research] ] =

*1837–1838: Louisa Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
*1837–1838: Elizabeth Lambton, Countess of Durham
*1837–1841: Maria Phipps, Marchioness of Normanby
*1837–1841: Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford
*1837–1842: Sarah Lyttelton, Baroness Lyttelton, then Governess (Lady Superintendent) of the Royal Children 1842–1850.
*1837–1842: Frances Noel, Countess of Gainsborough
*1837–1851: Emma Portman, Baroness Portman
*1837–1854: Anne Caulfield, Countess of Charlemont
*1838–1840: Blanche Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
*1839: Elizabeth Campbell, Marchioness of Breadalbane
*1839–1842: Mary Montagu, Countess of Sandwich
*1840–1854 & 1863–1865: Carolina Edgcumbe, Countess of Mount Edgcumbe
*1841–1845: Catherine Murray, Countess of Dunmore
*1842: Susan Ramsay, Countess of Dalhousie
*1842–1843: Charlotte Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
*1842–1855: Charlotte Canning, Countess Canning
*1841–1867: Frances Jocelyn, Viscountess Jocelyn (extra 1867-1880)
*1843–1858: Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
*1845–1864: Elizabeth Cuffe, Countess of Desart
*1851–1889: Jane Loftus, Marchioness of Ely
*1854–1897: Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl
*1854–1900: Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill
*1855–1863: Maria Bosville-Macdonald, Baroness Macdonald
*1858–1878: Jane Alexander, Countess of Caledon
*1864–1890: Elizabeth Cavendish, Baroness Waterpark
*1865–1895: Susanna Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe
*1867–1872: Eliza Agar-Ellis, Viscountess Clifden
*1872–1874: Blanche Bourke, Countess of Mayo
*1873–1901: Eliza Hay, Countess of Erroll
*1874–1885: Julia Abercromby, Baroness Abercromby
*1878–1901: Ismania FitzRoy, Baroness Southampton
*1885–1901: Emily Russell, Baroness Ampthill
*1889–1901: Cecilia Dawnay, Viscountess Downe
*1890–1901: Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim
*1895–1901: Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton
*1897–1901: Anne Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra, 1901-1925=

*1900–1910: Alice Stanley, Countess of Derby (extra 1910-1925)
*1901–1905: Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton
*1901–1910: Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim
*1901–1925: Louisa Acheson, Countess of Gosford
*1901–1911: Cecilia Harbord, Baroness Suffield
*1901–1907: Alice Douglas, Countess of Morton (extra)
*1901–1912: Mary Parker, Countess of Macclesfield (extra)
*1905–1910: Maud Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne (extra 1901-05 & 1910-1925)
*1907–1910: Cecily Gascoyne-Cecil, Marchioness of Salisbury (extra 1910-1925)
*1905–1910: Constance Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury (extra)
*1910–1914: Winifred Hardinge, Baroness Hardinge of Penshurst (extra)
*1911–1925: Cecilia Carington, Marchioness of Lincolnshire (Countess Carrington 1911-1912)


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Mary, Princess of Wales, later Queen Mary, 1901-1953=

*1901–1902: Ida Bridgeman, Countess of Bradford (extra 1905-1936)
*1901–1910 & 1916–1953: Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie (extra 1910-1916)
*1902–1910: Mary Cochrane-Baillie, Baroness Lamington (extra 1910-1917)
*1906–1913: Constance Ashley-Cooper, Countess of Shaftesbury (extra 1905-1906 & 1913-1953)
*1911–1916 & 1924–1936: Ethel Grenfell, Baroness Desborough (extra 1916-1924 and 1936-1952)
*1911–1936: Mary Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, Countess of Minto (extra 1936-1940)
*1911–1953: Margaret Russell, Baroness Ampthill
*1913–1924: Emily Fortescue, Countess Fortescue (extra 1924-1929)


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, 1937-2002=

*1937–1947: Mary Wilson, Baroness Nunburnholme
*1937–1972: Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer
*1937–1941: Dorothy Wood, Viscountess Halifax
*1937–1994: Patricia Smith, Viscountess Hambleden
*1945–1967: Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech (extra 1941-1945)
*1947–1979: Katharine Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough
*1973–2002: Elizabeth Beckett, Baroness Grimthorpe
*1994–2002: Elizabeth Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough


=Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Elizabeth II, 1953-present=

*1953–1966: Fortune FitzRoy, Countess of Euston (now the Duchess of Grafton)
*1953–1973: Elizabeth Coke, Countess of Leicester
*1966–1987: Patricia Nevill, Marchioness of Abergavenny (extra 1960-1966 & 1987-2005)
*1967–1971: Esmé Baring, Countess of Cromer (temporary, extra 1971-1993)
*1967: Sonia Fairfax, Lady Fairfax of Cameron (temporary)
*1973–present: Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
*1987–present: Diana Maxwell, Baroness Farnham

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