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Portrait of Bridget Holmes by John Riley. Oil on canvas, 224.7 x 149.0 cm. Bridget Holmes (1591–1691) was a domestic servant at the English royal court in the 17th century. Holmes was a necessary woman whose duties included emptying and scouring chamber pots and cleaning the royal apartments.
Bridget Holmes was a necessary woman for a series of five monarchs, from Charles I to Mary II and so was one of the longest-serving royal servants. Rules to be observed by the Housekeeper of a country house in Victorian Britain. A housekeeper (also called necessary woman) is an individual responsible for the supervision of a house's cleaning ...
Riley by Egbert van Heemskerk the Younger (after John Riley) Portrait of Bridget Holmes by Riley, 1686. John Riley, or Ryley, (1646 – March 1691) was an English portrait painter. He painted portraits of Charles II and James II, and was court painter to William III and Mary II. One of his pupils was Jonathan Richardson.
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes tied the knot in “the wedding of the century,” 17 years ago.. While it’s unclear exactly who officially gave it that title — a term used by the media, including ...
That’s the allegation being made about Bridget Ziegler — co-founder of far-right Moms for Liberty and a Sarasota School Board member — by an unnamed woman accusing Christian Ziegler of rape ...
Ben Holmes is a "blurb" writer responsible for writing the short introductions on the sleeves of hardcover books. On his way from his home in NYC to Savannah, Georgia for his wedding to Bridget, he is already anxious about flying. His nerves are worsened when he's seated next to Sarah, a free-spirited drifter who talks to Ben immediately.
In 1986, Caroline Kennedy, the only daughter of the late President Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in an intimate Catholic ceremony on Cape Cod.
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