Mistress of the Robes


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Mistress of the Robes

n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (in Britain) a lady of high rank in charge of the Queen's wardrobe
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sexing it up Lily Travers plays fictional character Sophie, Duchess of Monmouth - who joins Victoria's court as Mistress of the Robes.
Rigg joined the cast for the second series as the Duchess of Buccleuch, the Mistress of the Robes.
The Duchess was Mistress of the Robes to Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, from 1937 to 1964.
Jenna Coleman and Tom Hughes expected her to do the same as the Duchess of Buccleuch, Queen Victoria's sharptongued Mistress of the Robes.
Meanwhile, her new Mistress of the Robes is Diana Rigg (Doctor Who fans will be in orbit to see Clara Oswald and Winifred Gillyflower back together again).
The Lady Olenna Tyrell actress will play the Duchess of Buccleuch, the queen's new Mistress of the Robes. She'll give Victoria some sound advice next year.
Mistress of the Robes coronation gown, worn by Duchess Evelyn at the 1937 Coronation and Duchess Mary at the 1953 Coronation, part of the House Style exhibition on now
Whilst Jenny Bloodworth's essay on Terry's role as Countess Glicka in Clotilde Graves's The Mistress of the Robes (1902) occasionally neglects to account for the influence and persistent presence of established stage conventions and public reception of them, it reveals a focused analysis of a facet of Terry's character that extends our understanding of her as a professional actress and celebrity performer.
Ela, from Ysbyty Ifan, near Pentrefoelas, has been been appointed the Gorsedd's Mistress of the Robes.
The churchman will then be given a new bardic name while the Mistress of the Robes, Sian Aman, will dress him in a white headdress before he joins other members inside the sacred circle.
Few things better show the incompetence of the Hitler regime than an event in which prominent figures thought that a Scottish Duke could overthrow Churchill and arrange a negotiated settlement with the aid of the Mistress of the Robes. The plot was more suitable for the days of George I than George VI.
Diana Rigg joins as the Mistress of the Robes, the Duchess of Buccleuch.