Ladies of The Bedchamber To Queen Elizabeth, Later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, 1937-2002
- 1937–1947: Mary Wilson, Baroness Nunburnholme
- 1937–1972: Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer
- 1937–1941: Dorothy Wood, Viscountess Halifax
- 1937–1994: Patricia Smith, Viscountess Hambleden
- 1941–1945: Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech
- 1945–1967: Beatrice Ormsby-Gore, Baroness Harlech
- 1947–1979: Katharine Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough
- 1973–2002: Elizabeth Beckett, Baroness Grimthorpe
- 1994–2002: Elizabeth Lumley, Countess of Scarbrough
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