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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