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 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: Catherine Stanhope, 1st Countess of Chesterfield

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Anne, 1704-1714

*1704–1714: Abigail Masham, Baroness Masham of Otes
*Anne Venables-Bertie, Countess of Abingdon
*Anne Spencer, Countess of Sunderland

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Caroline, Princess of Wales, later Queen Caroline, 1714-1735

*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-Conway, Countess of Hertford
*1724–1737: Sarah Lennox, Duchess of Richmond
*1725–1737: Anne van Keppel, Countess of Albemarle
*1727–1737: Henrietta Fermor, Countess of Pomfret

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
*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

*1837–1841: Maria Phipps, Marquess of Normanby
*Louisa Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne
*1837–1841: Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford
*1837–1854: Anne Caulfield, Countess of Charlemont
*1837–1842: Sarah Lyttelton, Lady Lyttelton, then Governess (Lady Superintendent) of the Royal Children 1842–1850
*1837–1842: Frances Noel, Countess of Gainsborough
*1837–1851: Emma Portman, Lady Portman
*Elizabeth Campbell, Marchioness of Breadalbane
*Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
*Anne Murray, Duchess of Atholl
*Maria Bosville-Macdonald, Lady Macdonald
*Eliza Hay, Countess of Erroll
*1854–1900: Jane Spencer, Baroness Churchill of Whichwood
*1874–1885: Julia Abercromby, Lady Abercromby
*1885–1901: Emily Russell, Baroness Ampthill
*1890–1901: Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim
*Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Alexandra, 1901-1925

*Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton
*1901–1910: Louisa McDonnell, Countess of Antrim
*1900–1910: Alice Stanley, Countess of Derby
*Maud Petty-FitzMaurice, Marchioness of Lansdowne

Ladies of the Bedchamber to Queen Mary, 1910-1953

*Mabell Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
*Margaret Russell, Baroness Ampthill
*1927–1930: Lady Katharine Hamilton

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
*1973–2002: Elizabeth Beckett, Lady Grimthorpe
*1994–2002: Elizabeth Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough
*Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Lady Harlech
*Ruth Roche, Lady Fermoy

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 Leicester of Holkham
*1966–1987: Patricia Nevill, Marchioness of Abergavenny
*1967–1971: Esmé Baring, Countess of Cromer
*1973–present: Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie
*1987–present: Diana Maxwell, Baroness Farnham