Elisabet Augusta Piper (1811–1879) was a Swedish court official. She served as ''

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'' (senior

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) to the queen of Sweden,

Sophia of Nassau Sophia of Nassau (Sophia Wilhelmine Marianne Henriette; 9 July 1836 – 30 December 1913), also Sofia, was List of Swedish consorts, Queen of Sweden and List of Norwegian consorts, Norway as the wife of King Oscar II. She was Queen of Sweden ...

, from 1872 to 1879. She was the daughter of the British admiral and nobleman Sir Thomas Baker and the Swedish noblewoman Sofia Augusta Ruuth. She married her cousin count Carl Erik Piper (1806–1875) in 1836. She served as ''

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lady of the Bedchamber Lady of the Bedchamber is the title of a lady-in-waiting holding the official position of personal attendant on a British queen regnant or queen consort. The position is traditionally held by the wife of a peer. A lady of the bedchamber would gi ...

) to queen Désirée in 1840-1850. She served as ''hovmästarinna'' (Senior lady-in-waiting) to crown princess Louise in 1850-1853, and succeeded as such by first Juliana Lovisa Posse and then Stefanie Hamilton. In 1872, after the accession of Oscar II, she was appointed Senior lady-in-waiting to the new queen, Sophia. She was described as an example of the old decadent court life when she was converted on her deathbed by the newly religious queen to the teachings of the British preacher

Lord Radstock Baron Radstock, of Castletown in the Queen's County, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Vice-Admiral the Honourable William Waldegrave. He was the second son of John Waldegrave, 3rd Earl Waldegrave (see Earl Wald ...

.Anne-Marie Riiber (1959). Drottning Sophia. Uppsala: J. A. Lindblads Förlag. ISBN Piper left a collection of papers from her long court career, consisting of descriptions of court rituals, court events, invitations and similar papers, which was donated to the Göteborgs museums handskriftssamling ('Gothenburg Museum of Written Documents') in 1880.

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