Groom of the Robes
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Groom of the Robes is an obsolete office in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of England, later Great Britain, ultimately the United Kingdom, equivalent to a Lady-in-Waiting for Kings and Queen Regnant.
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[edit] List of Grooms of the Robes
(incomplete)
- Thomas Purcell
- Piers Curteys
- John Hart
[edit] Grooms of the Robes to Henry VIII
- John Copinger
- Thomas Sternhold 1500–1549
[edit] to Edward VI
- Thomas Sternhold 1500–1549
[edit] to William IV
- Lord Adolphus FitzClarence 1802–1856
[edit] to Queen Victoria
- Henry David Erskine CVO 1870–1901
- Captain Harold Campbell, GCVO DSO Royal Navy 1937-1954
- Montague Eliot, KCVO OBE 1920-1936