lord-in-waiting

[ lawrd-in-wey-ting ]

/ ˈlɔrd ɪnˈweɪ tɪŋ /

a nobleman in attendance on a British monarch or the Prince of Wales.

Origin of lord-in-waiting

First recorded in 1855–60

At dinner, the first Lord-in-waiting took the head of the table; opposite to him, the chief Equerry-in-waiting.

The Public Life of Queen Victoria |John McGilchrist
What should I have known or written had I been a quiet mercantile politician or a lord-in-waiting?

The Love Affairs of Lord Byron |Francis Henry Gribble
The lord-in-waiting presents you to the King; and the lady-in-waiting does the same to her Majesty.

Abigail Adams and Her Times |Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Two small silver bars across his left shoulder showed that he was a lord-in-waiting.

After London |Richard Jefferies

I really would rather be porter to the House than a lord-in-waiting.

Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II (of II) |Edmund Downey