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In Britain, the closest attendant on a queen.
They are chosen generally from the daughters
and granddaughters of peers, but in the
absence of another title bear that of
Honourable. The appointment dates from the
Plantagenet kings and included a mistress of
the robes (almost invariably a duchess) and
ladies-in-waiting (officially styled `ladies
and women of the bedchamber').