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A cup-bearer depicted c. 460–450 BC. In Greek mythology, Hebe, the goddess of youth, was the original cup-bearer to the Greek gods of Mount Olympus, serving them nectar and ambrosia. Hebe is the daughter of Zeus and Hera and is described performing her duties as cup-bearer in the Iliad:
A lady-in-waiting (alternatively written lady in waiting) or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. [1] Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom she attended.
A lady's companion might be taken on by an unmarried woman living on her own, by a widow, a married woman who lived with her husband and sons but had no daughters and desired female company, or by an unmarried woman who was living with her father or another male relation but had lost her mother, and was too old to have a governess.
The title means "[Great] Lady," with the word being the feminine counterpart to gəḇir (גְּבִיר) 'virile man, lord, hero.'However, given that this title is most often attributed to a queen mother, the two have become synonymous and therefore gəḇirā is most often translated as such.
The daughter of Lord Mountbatten and a first cousin of Prince Philip, Lady Pamela was a bridesmaid at Queen Elizabeth's royal wedding, a lady-in-waiting for the Queen, and joined her on many ...
A lady-in-waiting is a woman who attends a female member of the Royal Family other than the queen regnant or queen consort. An attendant upon one of the latter is a Lady of the Bedchamber or Woman of the Bedchamber, and the senior lady-in-waiting is the Mistress of the Robes. The women of the bedchamber are in regular attendance, but the ...
She was a lady-in-waiting to the Byzantine empress Theodora. [3] Justinian I, Theodora's husband, may have pursued her, as Theodora grew jealous of her. [2] Anastasia, to avoid any trouble, left for Alexandria in Egypt. [2] She arrived at a place called Pempton, near Alexandria, where she founded a monastery which would later be named after her ...
The chief attendants at Anglo-Saxon royal feasts were dish-bearers and butlers or cup-bearers.Dish-bearer in Medieval Latin (ML) is discifer or dapifer, and in Old English (OE) discþegn, also discðegn and discþen (dish-thegn). [1]