Flower Painter in Ordinary, also called Flower Painter to the Queen, is a position in the United Kingdom awarded to a painter, and connected to the Queen...

Bourgeois as royal landscape painter, or the Flower Painter in Ordinary, who worked for the queen. Premier peintre du Roi ("First Painter of the King") was the...

of Mexico and Guatemala by James Bateman. She was appointed "Flower Painter in Ordinary" to Queen Adelaide and later to Queen Victoria. She also produced...

The title of Principal Painter in Ordinary to the King or Queen of England or, later, Great Britain, was awarded to a number of artists, nearly all mainly...

Phoebe Dighton and Phoebe MacIntyre, was a painter working in England who was appointed Flower Painter in Ordinary to Queen Adelaide. Born 1 September 1790...

of the ordinary received 16d per day, whereas an extraordinary yeoman was paid the same as a common infantryman (4d or 6d). In 1551, the ordinary was expanded...

Master of the Horse is an official position in several European nations. It was more common when most countries in Europe were monarchies, and is of varying...

artist and exhibitor at the Royal Academy who became Flower Painter in Ordinary to Queen Adelaide, in 1812 and they had two sons. The Storming of San Sebastian...

responsible for assisting the king in excretion and hygiene. The physical intimacy of the role naturally led to his becoming a man in whom much confidence was placed...

principal channel of communication between the monarch and the governments in most of the Commonwealth realms. They also have responsibility for the official...

The Comptroller of the Household is an ancient position in the British royal household, nominally the second-ranking member of the Lord Steward's department...

Astronomer Royal is a senior post in the Royal Households of the United Kingdom. There are two officers, the senior being the astronomer royal dating from...

Court of Session. Similar positions existed in continental Europe, particularly in Norman Italy and in Sweden. In Norman England, kings enlarged the scope...

until the replacement of the office by the Marshal of the Diplomatic Corps in 1920. 1603–1627: Sir Lewes Lewkenor 1627–1641: Sir John Finett 1641–1686:...

Kingdom used in England (then, following the Act of Union 1800, in the United Kingdom). He is the eighth of the great officers of State in the United Kingdom...

is also an hereditary Grand Almoner, an office dating from 1685 and vested in the person of the Marquess of Exeter, but this is not an office of the Royal...

A Page of Honour is a ceremonial position in the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. It requires attendance on state occasions, but...

queen consort, in the role of lady-in-waiting. Historically the term 'Gentlewoman of Her Majesty's Bedchamber' was sometimes used. In addition to the...

The mistress of the robes was the senior lady in the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, who would, by appointment, attend on the Queen (whether queen...

Rìgh) or Queen's Piper (Pìobaire a' Bhanrighe), is a position in the British Royal Household in which the holder of the office is responsible for playing...

functions in relation to the House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were usually delegated to the senior lord of appeal in ordinary. The...

III in 1820, King George IV in 1830, Prince William Frederick, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh in 1834, Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington in 1852...

as the King's spokesman in Council and Parliament. The current Lord Chamberlain is Richard Benyon, Baron Benyon, who has been in office since 4 November...

dinners of the suite in waiting on the sovereign.[citation needed] The office is not named in the Black Book of Edward IV or in the Statutes of Henry...

Privy Purse and Treasurer to the King is Sir Michael Stevens. At coronations in recent centuries, the holders of this office have invariably carried a ceremonial...

The Master of the Jewel Office was a position in the Royal Households of England, the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United Kingdom. The office holder...

The office of the Surveyor of the King's/Queen's Pictures, in the Royal Collection Department of the Royal Household of the Sovereign of the United Kingdom...

Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal) is the fifth of the Great Officers of State in the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord President of the Council and...

bodyguard positions in the British Royal Household, serving as personal attendants to the Sovereign on ceremonial occasions. Although now only in evidence on...

The Lord High Steward is the first of the Great Officers of State in England, nominally ranking above the Lord Chancellor. The office has generally remained...