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Recent Examples of lady-in-waiting
Her grandmother Ruth Roche, Baroness Fermoy, was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and her brother-in-law Lord Robert Fellowes worked in the royal household, eventually rising to the role of Queen Elizabeth's private secretary.
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Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
19 June 2026
Lady Pamela Hicks, a lady-in-waiting and bridesmaid of Queen Elizabeth, has died.
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Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
5 June 2026
Ruby, played by Vivica A. Fox, is a bedridden queen, mummified in compression wraps, immobile except for the lips, and attended to by nurses wearing gold door-knocker earrings, as if ladies-in-waiting, who file her talon nails and braid the ropes of her wig.
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Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
With Lady Danbury now serving a singular role as Queen Charlotte’s bestie, Brownell says that the requests that the royal usually asked of her pal will be instead passed on to her newest lady-in-waiting, Alice Mondrich (Emma Naomi).
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Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Feb. 2026
Born Lady Anne Coke, Glenconner served as a maid of honor at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, and as lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for more than 30 years.
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Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
29 Dec. 2025
This is honourable work for a lady-in-waiting to a queen, and the duty of a beloved sister-in-law.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Her lady-in-waiting’s husband, Lord Colin Tennant, spent vast amounts of his fortune on transforming Mustique, a tiny island in the Caribbean, into a party resort for the rich and famous.
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Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
13 July 2025
Katharine spent years languishing as a lady-in-waiting to a lady-in-waiting.
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Eva Wolchover,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
Janine Henni,
PEOPLE,
19 June 2026
Lady Pamela Hicks, a lady-in-waiting and bridesmaid of Queen Elizabeth, has died.
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Rachel Burchfield,
InStyle,
5 June 2026
Ruby, played by Vivica A. Fox, is a bedridden queen, mummified in compression wraps, immobile except for the lips, and attended to by nurses wearing gold door-knocker earrings, as if ladies-in-waiting, who file her talon nails and braid the ropes of her wig.
—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
1 June 2026
With Lady Danbury now serving a singular role as Queen Charlotte’s bestie, Brownell says that the requests that the royal usually asked of her pal will be instead passed on to her newest lady-in-waiting, Alice Mondrich (Emma Naomi).
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Emlyn Travis,
Entertainment Weekly,
26 Feb. 2026
Born Lady Anne Coke, Glenconner served as a maid of honor at Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953, and as lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for more than 30 years.
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Samantha Conti,
Footwear News,
29 Dec. 2025
This is honourable work for a lady-in-waiting to a queen, and the duty of a beloved sister-in-law.
—
Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
5 Aug. 2025
Her lady-in-waiting’s husband, Lord Colin Tennant, spent vast amounts of his fortune on transforming Mustique, a tiny island in the Caribbean, into a party resort for the rich and famous.
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Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
13 July 2025
Katharine spent years languishing as a lady-in-waiting to a lady-in-waiting.
—
Eva Wolchover,
New York Times,
2 Jan. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lady-in-waiting
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Prior to her escape, Judge served as a chambermaid in the President’s House.
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In 1911, a gas explosion in that room caused major damage to the hotel and severely injured a chambermaid, according to the Estes Park Trail Gazette.
Noun
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Taking with her only Fanny and a nursemaid, Wollstonecraft travelled to Norway, Sweden and Denmark, and during her travels, wrote dozens of letters to Imlay in which the infant Fanny might occasionally be glimpsed.
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Anna has come East to meet her estranged father, the Swedish bargeman Chris (Brian d’Arcy James), who believes Anna’s been earning money as a nursemaid.
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The enterprising maidservant followed him into a shop.
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Julia, who was already pregnant with her and Henry’s second child, is forced to work as a maidservant for the reprehensible Lord Lovat (Tony Curran), who happens to be the father of Brian.
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Her housekeeper, who is Ethiopian, sustained less-severe injuries in the attack, Khalil's relatives said.
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The 1980s domestic comedy helped put fairly progressive content — for its time — into prime time, as it was centered around a single dad and former pro baseball player (Danza) who takes a job as a live-in housekeeper for a powerful ad executive (Light).
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The handmaids’ crimson robes evolved into protest iconography around the world because the story captured fears about authoritarianism and gender more viscerally than overt political messaging ever could.
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Brush in hand, she is dwarfed by huge canvases within the paintings on which bare-breasted figures are in the process of emerging—a waiflike handmaiden hard at work at the feet of her American Helens of Troy.
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