Mistress of the Robes
Britishnoun
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The Mistress of the Robes, often a duchess, is responsible for the schedule and duties of her fellow ladies-in-waiting.
From Fox News ● Jan. 3, 2022
The outlet noted that the queen’s Mistress of the Robes served from 1967 until her death on Dec. 3 at age 101.
From Fox News ● Jan. 3, 2022
The duchess was Mistress of the Robes whenever the Whig party were in power but the queen refused to part from her when the Tories were elected, causing the party to fall.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2018
Under Queen Anne, Sarah became Groom of the Stole, Mistress of the Robes and Comptroller of the Privy Purse: soon "the Queen was surrounded by Churchills," all on the make and growing richer every day.
From Time Magazine Archive
This was scarcely done when the door was again opened, and there entered the Queen’s Mistress of the Robes, her woman of the bed-chamber, and the wife of the commissariat clerk, Abel Catharina.
From Memoirs of Leonora Christina Daughter of Christian IV. of Denmark; Written During Her Imprisonment in the Blue Tower at Copenhagen 1663-1685 by Ulfeldt, Leonora Christina
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