Mary Shelton, who entered as a chamberer in 1567 when she was about 17 years old, was the queen's second cousin on the Boleyn side.

Servants sped up and down stairs to this gallery, bringing up plates of food from the Queen's privy kitchen, which then had to be handed over to the maids of honor, pages, or chamberers, […]

And then she said to her chamberer: It behoveth us no longer to abide here; and she said: Lady, whither will ye go?

[…] as a soldier, as a legislator, she adores him most; not as a chamberer, and a carpet-knight.

Chamberer

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