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

Contents

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Catherine of Braganza, 1662-1688

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==

★ 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, Countess of Hertford

★ 1724–1737: Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond

★ 1725–1737: Anne van Keppel, Countess of Albemarle

★ ?–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==

★ 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==

★ 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 Queen Adelaide, 1830-1837==

★ 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==

★ 1837–1838: Louisa Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne

★ 1837–1838: Elizabeth Lambton, Countess of Durham

★ 1837–1841: Maria Phipps, Marquess 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-present)

★ 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