The Queen Consort is set to dispense with the centuries-old tradition of having ladies-in-waiting as part of her retinue. One source explained: ‘When she got married and set up her own office for the first time she got two brilliant private secretaries, Amanda Macmanus and Joy Camm. She currently has two private secretaries who do some of those traditional duties anyway. Nowadays they are fairly modest in number but this was not always the case – Queen Elizabeth I had no fewer than 30 ladies-in-waiting. Queen Elizabeth II’s ladies-in-waiting were led by Lady Susan Hussey, dubbed ‘number one head girl’.

Source: The Times October 01, 2022 06:11 UTC