BEDCHAMBER, LORDS

BEDCHAMBER, LORDS
   or LADIES OF
   officers or ladies of the royal household whose duty it is to wait upon the sovereign - the chief of the former called Groom of the Stole, and of the latter, Mistress of the Robes.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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