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  1. A lady-in-waiting (alternatively written lady in waiting) or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom she attended.

  2. Lady Glenconner was a lady-in-waiting until Princess Margaret died in 2002 at the age of 71. Over the course of her service, she accompanied the Princess on many tours abroad to destinations including the United States , Australia and Hong Kong ; once, she stood in for the Princess on a trip to the Philippines to meet with Imelda ...

  3. LADY IN WAITING My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown By Anne Glenconner. It seems particularly apt that Anne Coke Tennant, Baroness Glenconner, was born into an ancient British family ...

  4. In the Royal Household of the United Kingdom the term Woman of the Bedchamber is used to describe a woman (usually a daughter of a peer) attending either a queen regnant or queen consort, in the role of lady-in-waiting.

  5. Lady-in-waiting, in European history, a woman of noble birth who serves a female monarch as a member of the royal household. Any noble woman performing personal service for a queen is often referred to as a lady-in-waiting, although exact titles differ depending on a woman’s particular office or.

  6. Lady in Waiting. Life at Court. From 1768 to 1789. Her traces in Versailles. Her representations. Jeanne Louise Henriette Genet, later Madame Campan, received a literary education and learned Italian and English. At the age of fifteen she entered the royal court of Versailles, recruited as reader to the younger daughters of Louis XV.