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Queen Consort and the Queen's Staff
In our time line, Queen Victoria, faced a political crisis when it came to her Ladies of the Bedchamber. In this time line, with the offices not being directly linked to the ruling monarch, they are not made political.

Queen Consorts
1830-1838: Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen
1838-1897: Sophie of the Netherlands
1897-1900: Vacant

Mistress of the Robes
1830-1837: Catherine Osborne, Duchess of Leeds
1837-1839: Princess Alexandrina of Kent
1839-1864: Mary Fox, Marchioness of Brighton [1]
1864-1866: Augusta Emma Russell, Duchess of Sussex [2]
1866-1870: Charlotte Fitzalan-Howard, Duchess of Norfolk
1870-1897: Louisa Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn

Ladies of the Bedchamber
1830–1838: Emily Nugent, Marchioness of Westmeath
1830–1838: Arabella Bourke, Countess of Mayo
1830–1848: Marianne Wellesley, Countess of Mornington
1830–1834: Anna Loftus, Marchioness of Ely
1830–1838: Emma Brownlow, Countess Brownlow
1830–1838: Lady Harriet Clinton
1833–1836: Harriet Howe, Countess Howe
1836–1838: Harriet Baker-Holroyd, Countess of Sheffield
1837-1841: Maria Phipps, Marchioness of Normanby
1837-1841: Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford
1838-1870: Louisa Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (chosen to replace the Duchess of Norfolk as Mistress of the Robes)
1840-1855 Cecilia Underwood, 1st Duchess of Inverness [3]
1840-1867: Lady Georgiana Elizabeth Russell
1840–1897: Lady Constance Stanley of Derby
1841-1851: Lady Caroline Anne Sanford
1841-1881: Elizabeth Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington
1854-1897: Lady Louisa Jane Hamilton (later Louisa Montagu Douglas Scott, Duchess of Buccleuch)
1867-1897: Princess Mary of Cumberland (later Mary, Duchess of York and Albany)
1870-1897: Emily Russell, Baroness Ampthill
List is incomplete - As of 15/12/2018

[1] The fourth child and second daughter of the then Prince William, Duke of Clarence, and his companion Dorothea Jordan, Mary was William V's half sister. In his succession, he created her housekeeper of Brighton Pavilion and elevated her husband, the illegitimate son of Henry Richard Vassall-Fox, 3rd Baron Holland and his companion Elizabeth Vassal, divorcee of Sir Godfrey Webster, 4th Baronet, whom Lord Holland would later marry, General Charles Richard Fox to Marquess of Brighton.
When Mary, died childless on 13 July 1864, her husband would keep the title until his death in 13 April 1873.
[2] The daughter of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (sixth son of King George III), later Duke of Sussex, by his marriage with the Lady Augusta Murray, second daughter of John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, and his countess, Lady Charlotte Stewart.
Upon William V's succession, he legitimatized the children of Prince Augustus and Lady Augusta. Upon the death of their father, 21 April 1843, her brother, Augustus was elevated to the dukedom of Sussex, he would hold this title until his own death, childless, in 28 December 1848.
In 1840, Augusta married, widower and Whig member of parliament, John Russell, whom had served as Home Secretary in 1835-1839 and then Secretary of State for War and the Colonies, 1839-1841. As the third son of John Russell, later 6th Duke of Bedford, . The Russell family had been one of the principal Whig dynasties in England since the 17th century, and were among the richest handful of aristocratic landowning families in the country, but as a younger son of the 6th Duke of Bedford, he was not expected to inherit the family estates.
The pair would go on to have four children and when Augusta, was granted her brother's title in 1848, she did so, allowing John Russell to take the title too, elevating him to the house of Lords, where he would act as Leader of the House of Lords on four occasions, from 6 July 1846 to 21 February 1852, in 8 February 1855 to 21 February 1858, in 18 June 1859 to 26 June 1866, and finally in 9 December 1868 to 17 February 1874, he would also serve as Prime Minister during 1868-1874.
[3] Second wife of Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex

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