Lady of the bedchamber

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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 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: Catherine Stanhope, 1st Countess of Chesterfield

Ladies of the Bedchamber to

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

Ladies of the Bedchamber to

• 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 Hinchinbroke
• 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-Conway, Countess of Hertford
• 1724–1737: Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond
• 1725–1737: Anne van Keppel, Countess of Albemarle
• 1727–1737: Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret

Ladies of the Bedchamber to

• 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

• 1761–1784: Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll
• 1761–1791: Elizabeth Howard, Countess of Effingham
• 1761–1770: Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Northumberland
• 1761–1794: Alicia Wyndham, Countess of Egremont
• 1761–1793: Elizabeth Thynne, Marchioness of Bath
• 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
• 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

• 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
• 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

• 1837–1841: Maria Phipps, Marquess of Normanby
• Louisa Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
• 1837–1841: Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford
• 1837–1854: Anne Caulfield, Countess of Charlemont
• 1837–1842: Sarah Lyttelton, Lady Lyttelton, then Governess (Lady Superintendent) of the Royal Children 1842–1850
• 1837–1842: Frances Noel, Countess of Gainsborough
• 1837–1851: Emma Portman, Lady Portman
• Elizabeth Campbell, Marchioness of Breadalbane
• Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
• Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl
• Maria Bosville-Macdonald, Lady Macdonald
• Eliza Hay, Countess of Erroll
• 1854–1900: Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill of Whichwood
• 1874–1885: Julia Abercromby, Lady Abercromby
• 1885–1901: Emily Russell, Baroness Ampthill
• 1890–1901: Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim
• Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton

Ladies of the Bedchamber to

• Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton
• 1901–1910: Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim
• 1900–1910: Alice Stanley, Countess of Derby
• Maud Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne

Ladies of the Bedchamber to

• Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
• Margaret Russell, Baroness Ampthill
• 1927–1930: Lady Katharine Hamilton

Ladies of the Bedchamber to

• 1937–1947: Mary Wilson, Baroness Nunburnholme
• 1937–1972: Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer
• 1973–2002: Elizabeth Beckett, Lady Grimthorpe
• 1994–2002: Elizabeth Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough
• Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Lady Harlech
• Ruth Roche, Lady Fermoy

Ladies of the Bedchamber to

• 1953–1966: Fortune FitzRoy, Countess of Euston (now the Duchess of Grafton)
• 1953–1973: Elizabeth Coke, Countess Leicester of Holkham
• 1966–1987: Patricia Nevill, Marchioness of Abergavenny
• 1967–1971: Esmé Baring, Countess of Cromer
• 1973–present: Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
• 1987–present: Diana Maxwell, Baroness Farnham

 

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