Voorbeelden van ladies-in-waiting

• The first years, she found it difficult to adapt to the strict court etiquette and played children's games with her ladies-in-waiting.

• Her various ladies-in-waiting were usually recruited from noble families; others were minor princesses who would also have a retinue of servants.

• However, she refused because, according to palace customs at the time, she was not allowed to leave the palace without being accompanied by her ladies-in-waiting.

• She preferred her husband's mistresses to be ladies-in-waiting, as that way she believed she could keep a closer eye on them.

• Other inhabitants of the court were the king's children and a multitude of ladies-in-waiting and servants.

• She then joined her ladies-in-waiting, who watched the battle praying for victory from the castle-walls.

• In this time the imperial court patronized the poets, most of whom were courtiers or ladies-in-waiting.

• The sacred mirror was recovered in extremis when one of the ladies-in-waiting was about to jump with it into the sea.