"Lady of the Bedchamber" Charlotte Knollys Hand Written Letter COA For Sale

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"Lady of the Bedchamber" Charlotte Knollys Hand Written Letter COA:
$489.99

Up for sale a RARE! "Lady of the Bedchamber" Charlotte Knollys Hand Written Letter. This item is certified authentic by Todd

Mueller Autographs and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.

 ES-3215Elizabeth

Charlotte Knollys (5

January 1835 – 24 April 1930) was an English courtier and member of the Knollys family. She was Lady of the Bedchamber,

and the first woman private secretary, to Princess Alexandra of Denmark,

later Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, consort of Edward VII of the United

Kingdom. The

daughter of Sir William

Thomas Knollys, a successful military figure and Comptroller of the

Household to Edward VII the Prince of Wales, and his wife, Elizabeth St. Aubyn, Charlotte

Knollys was born in London on 5 January 1835. Her parents lived at 13 Portman

St. in Marylebone. At 28, was sent into Alexandra's service as a

Lady of the Bedchamber. The Princess of Wales came to rely heavily on her. By

the late 1880s she began to perform duties as a private secretary. Alexandra

required her services more when she was in mourning, for example when her

beloved son, Prince

Albert Victor, Duke of Clarence, died in 1892.Upon Edward's ascension to the

throne, when Queen Victoria died

in 1901, Charlotte was officially installed at Alexandra's side. The new

King Edward VII granted her the style the Honourable and

precedence as the daughter of a Baron, after her brother became Viscount

Knollys. She performed all duties as private secretary

and was also in Alexandra's complete confidence. However, this came at the

price of having little freedom, a price which grew much more oppressive when

Edward died in 1910. Alexandra, now Queen Dowager, shut herself away in seclusion at Sandringham House, in Norfolk, England, her favourite home. Charlotte wrote in a

letter dated a year before Alexandra's death in 1925. Her leave of service came

upon Alexandra's death in 1925. During her service, she was credited as the

first woman private secretary to the Sovereign, and the first person not of

royal blood to enter the Queen's boudoir without invitation. She was presented with a gold

medal after saving Alexandra from a fire.

She died, aged 95, unmarried, at her flat in South Audley Street, London

in 1930.

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