Maid of honour information

A maid of honour is a junior attendant of a queen in royal households. The position was and is junior to the lady-in-waiting. The equivalent title and...

SSRF under the command of Major Gus March-Phillipps left Britain in August 1941 and sailed the Brixham trawler, Maid of Honour, to the Spanish colony...

five-year-old Infanta Margaret Theresa is surrounded by her entourage of maids of honour, chaperone, bodyguard, two dwarfs and a dog. Just behind them, Velázquez...

The Maid of Honour is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger, first published in 1632. It may be Massinger's earliest extant...

Maids of honour tart (also known as maids of honour cake and Richmond maids of honour) is a traditional English baked tart consisting of a puff pastry...

'matron of honour' is often used. The influence of American English has led to the chief bridesmaid sometimes being called the maid of honour. In North...

Earl of Ormond; the marriage plans were broken off, and instead, she secured a post at court as maid of honour to Henry VIII's wife, Catherine of Aragon...

maid of honour at her sister Catherine's wedding in 2011 to Prince William. At the wedding, Middleton's dress, which was created by Sarah Burton of Alexander...

most infamous of all"). She returned to England in 1519, where she was appointed a maid-of-honour to Catherine of Aragon, the queen consort of Henry VIII...

a Scottish socialite who was a maid of honour at the coronation of Elizabeth II. She was the youngest maid of honour at the Queen's coronation. Russell...

co-authors. Written in the style of a diary, the story follows the protagonist, Lady Grace Cavendish, a maid of honour to Queen Elizabeth I, attempting...

began courting Catherine Howard, the maid-of-honour of his fourth spouse, Anne of Cleves. Catherine was a first cousin of Anne and Mary Boleyn. Jane Popincourt...

of Empress Alexandra Feodorovna and Grand Duke Alexander Nikolaevich (the future Alexander II). In 1853, Alexandra Albedinskaya was appointed a maid of...

official cadre of bridesmaids, pages and the overall makeup of the wedding party: Philippa Middleton, the Maid of Honour Prince Henry of Wales, the Best...

daughter of Henry Stewart, 1st Lord Methven and Janet Stewart, daughter of John Stewart, 2nd Earl of Atholl. She was a maid of honour to Anne of Denmark...

lawyer and servant of Thomas Cromwell who died aged 23; Anne Basset (born 1521), third daughter and a fellow courtier, maid of honour successively to Queens...

use of the term best man comes from 1782, observing that "best man and best maid" in the Scottish dialect are equivalent to "bride-man and bride-maid" in...

The office was that of maid of honour of higher rank, or a senior maid of honour. While there was normally several maids of honour (Danish: Hoffrøken;...

granddaughter of Fyodor Tyutchev, maid of honour, and teacher of the daughters of Nikolai II of Russia. Sofia was borth the eldest daughter of the statesman...

served as a maid of honour at the coronation of Elizabeth II. Lady Moyra Hamilton was born on 22 July 1930 in London. She was the eldest child of James Hamilton...