{{short description|European royal court office}}
{{More citations needed|date=May 2026}} A '''Chamber Woman''' (Danish: ''Kammerfrue''; German: ''Kammerfrau''; Swedish: ''kammarfru'') was a court office in several European courts.
The Chamber Woman was in charge of the wardrobe, cosmetics and other matters concerning the domestic management of the personal chambers of a royal woman. She had about the equivalent task in the household of a royal woman as a personal Lady's maid, and assisted with dressing, undressing and bathing the royal woman.<ref>Rundquist, Angela, Blått blod och liljevita händer: en etnologisk studie av aristokratiska kvinnor 1850-1900, Carlsson, Diss. Stockholm : Univ.,Stockholm, 1989</ref> She supervised the chambermaids and the domestic concerns of the court of a royal woman, which was then performed by the servants. She was in rank between the ladies-in-waiting of the nobility and the domestic servants. In Sweden, the ''kammarfru'' was normally a woman not from the nobility, but from the wealthy burgher class.<ref>Hellsing, My (2013). Hovpolitik : Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte som politisk aktör vid det gustavianska hovet. Örebro: Örebro universitet. Sid. 61. {{ISBN|978-91-7668-964-6}}</ref>
==Notable examples== * Catharina Ahlgren * Ingrid Maria Wenner * Anna Sofia Ramström
==See also== * Woman of the Bedchamber, British equivalent * Première femme de Chambre, French equivalent
==References== {{reflist}} * Klaus Kjølsen: Det Kongelige Danske Hof 1660-2000: en forvaltningshistorisk oversigt, 2010 * Fabian Persson (1999). Servants of Fortune. The Swedish court between 1598 and 1721. Lund: Wallin & Dalholm. {{ISBN|91-628-3340-5}} * Rundquist, Angela, Blått blod och liljevita händer: en etnologisk studie av aristokratiska kvinnor 1850-1900, Carlsson, Diss. Stockholm : Univ.,Stockholm, 1989 * Hellsing, My (2013). Hovpolitik : Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte som politisk aktör vid det gustavianska hovet. Örebro: Örebro universitet. Sid. 61. {{ISBN|978-91-7668-964-6}}
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