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This Coronation, the older generation of the young Queen’s subjects say contentedly, was the last they ever expect to see. It was probably the most superb and certainly the most moving one that ...

Hussey's official title is Woman of the Bedchamber, a title given to ladies-in-waiting who are peeresses, the wife or widow of a peer (a man with an aristocratic title). Hussey was married to the ...

Ladies of the Bedchamber are usually peeresses. This means they are the wife or widow of a peer, a male who holds an aristocratic title. Meanwhile, Women of the Bedchamber are daughters of peers.

A Tory diehard, who boasted that his home was illuminated only by candles, he blocked admittance of peeresses to the House of Lords lest the body “lose dignity to secure efficiency.” ...