Talk:Woman of the Bedchamber
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This article is nonsense. Women of the Bedchamber also wait on female sovereigns. Also, the difference between a Lady and a Woman of the Bedchamber is that ladies are of a noble rank and women aren't - the article doesn't mention this at all! Craigy 
(talk) 23:15, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Agree
As I understand it, the Ladies of the Bedchamber are normally wives or widows of peers. Women of the Bedchamber may either be peeresses or not - normally not, but often daughters or otherwise related to peers, baronets or knights: e.g. Lady Gillian Hussey. Women of the Bedchamber rotate on a regular basis as "duty" lady in waiting to HM The Queen, thus disproving the assertion that they do not serve a female Sovereign. Ladies of the Bedchamber tend to be on duty for important occasions in the UK or for State Visits. Ladies and Women of the Bedchamber serve The Queen (regnant or consort). A female attendants on other female members of the Royal Family is called Lady in Waiting. This term is also used to describe, generically, Ladies and Women of the Bedchamber. All of this can be readily checked in the back issues of Whitaker's Almanac, to which I do not have access as I live outside the UK without an English-language reference library.
