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.
