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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 Elizabeth I, 1558-1603

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 Hinchingbrooke

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

1725–1737: 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 and Montgomery

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, Marchioness 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 & 1987-2005)

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 FarnhamFurther Information

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