Sunday, 13 December 2015

Lady in Waiting...

Official definition of a Lady in Waiting : 'A lady-in-waiting is a female personal assistant at court, royal or feudal, attending on a Queen (either if she is a Queen regent or the Queen consort), a princess, or a high ranking noblewoman.

Today Sharon gave us a list of women that were ladies in waiting to Queen Elizabeth and we had to choose one and create a back story for them. There were nine in total and we were told a brief amount of information about each one.


  • Katherine Swynford - Married a knight
  • Anne Russell - Married Ambrose Dudley. Robert Dudley's brother
  • Lettice Knollys - Had an affair with Robert Dudley
  • Elizabeth Throckmorton - Married Sir Walter Raleigh
  • Elizabeth Brydges - Was included in the Queens Funeral
  • Blanch Perry - Gentlewoman of the Bedchamber
  • Anne Vavasour - Mistress of the Earl of Oxford
  • Bess of Hardwick - Married four times. Second most powerful woman in the country.
So after learning a small amount of each lady, there was two that I was deciding between. The first was Lettice Knollys. What I liked about Knollys was the fact that she had an affair with the Queens lover and I wanted to know how and what happened after. The second was Anne Vavasour. I liked the sound of her as she seemed like the kind of person that caused a small amount of trouble wherever she went. I also thought she sounded quite scandalous which would have been an interesting thing to try and portray.

Which one did I choose? You'll just have to wait and see!

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