Noblewomen, Court Service, and Crossing Borders: England <em>c</em>. 1500-1550 by Nicola Clark

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Ladies-in-Waiting and Portraiture at Philip II’s Court: Portraits of the Habsburgs and of “Unknown Lady” in the Museo del Prado by Vanessa De Cruz Medina

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His dark lady / by 591544 Lamb, Victoria author

“…When young, aspiring playwright William Shakespeare encounters Lucy Morgan, one of Queen Elizabeth I's ladies-in-waiting, the two fall passionately in love. He declares Lucy the inspiration for his work, but what secret is Will hiding from his muse? …”

As potencialidades da função de Aia na Baixa Idade Média by Fátima Regina Fernandes

“…The contribution of one such study shall be that, through prosopography, it attemps at undoing the historiographic generalizations that haunt the studies around the category of lady-in-waiting.…”
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Tropem Wspomnień Anny Aksakowej. Europejskie spojrzenie na Rosję carską by Daria Ambroziak

“…With her father’s help and right connections she became the lady-in-waiting of Maria Alexandrovna – the wife of the heir to the throne after Tsar Alexander II. …”
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Introduction: The Iberian Queen’s Households: Dynamics, Social Strategies, and Royal Power by Diana Pelaz Flores

“…The company and service of officers, ladies-in-waiting, maidens, or servants contributed to the creation of a “circle of security” for the infanta and later for the queen, but also of a political instrument, and even of a cultural agent if necessary. …”
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Between Domestic Care, Feelings, and Politics. The Correspondence of Bianca Maria Visconti (1450-1468) by Maria Nadia Covini

“…Her correspondents belonged either to her family − her husband, sons and daugters, relatives, more devote courtiers − either to her impressive patronal network, as ladies-in-waiting, friends, servants, retainers, nobles and aristocrats, prelates and even common people. …”
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El ajuste matrimonial de Juana Francisca de Córdoba y Velasco. Límites familiares en la corte de Felipe IV / The matrimonial adjustment of Juana Francisca de Córdoba and Velasco. F... by Carmen María Fernández Nadal

“…Keywords: Marriage strategies, ladies-in-waiting of Queen, Countess of Olivares, Luis Méndez de Haro, Duke of Frías, Marquis of Fresno. …”
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Between Domestic Care, Feelings, and Politics. The Correspondence of Bianca Maria Visconti (1450-1468) Tra cure domestiche, sentimenti e politica. La corrispondenza di Bianca Maria... by Maria Nadia Covini

“…Her correspondents belonged either to her family − her husband, sons and daugters, relatives, more devote courtiers − either to her impressive patronal network, as ladies-in-waiting, friends, servants, retainers, nobles and aristocrats, prelates and even common people. …”
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La carta de Lope de Vega al príncipe de Esquilache y los poemas fúnebres a Catalina de la Cerda by Rafael Castillo Bejarano

“…We also demonstrate that both Lope’s sonnet and the Esquilache’s «Elegy» also mentioned in the Laurel, are not dedicated to the old Duchess of Lerma, as scholars usually propose, but to a lady-in-waiting who died in 1627: «the most celebrated lady-in-waiting ever at Palace», in Gascón de Torquemada’s words.…”
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Une histoire d’intimité cachée : Sofonisba Anguissola portraitiste et dama de compañía (1559-1573) à la cour de Philippe II d’Espagne by Elena Taddia

“…-1625), employed in 1559 as lady-in-waiting or “companion artist” of the young queen Isabelle of Valois. …”
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The Queen and the Sultana: Early Modern Female Circuits of Diplomacy and the Consumption of Gendered Luxury Items Between East and West by Mathilde Alazraki

“…A close study of Elizabeth and Safiye’s correspondence, as well as the role of the Jewish kira (the Ottoman equivalent of a lady in waiting) Esperanza Malchi in relaying the correspondence between the royal harem and the English embassy, will help shed light on the often-overlooked roles that female friendship and material culture played in foreign diplomacy, a subject that is only recently coming under attention in gender, global and material studies of the early modern period.…”
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