Elisabet Augusta Piper (1811–1879) was a Swedish court official. She served as ''

överhovmästarinna Court Mistress ( da, hofmesterinde; nl, hofmeesteres; german: Hofmeisterin; no, hoffmesterinne; sv, hovmästarinna) or Chief Court Mistress ( da, Overhofmesterinde; ('grand mistress'); ; no, overhoffmesterinne; sv, överhovmästarinna; russia ...

'' (senior

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) to the queen of Sweden,

Sophia of Nassau Sophia of Nassau (Sophia Wilhelmine Marianne Henriette; 9 July 1836 – 30 December 1913) was Queen of Sweden and Norway as the wife of King Oscar II. She was Queen of Sweden for 35 years, longer than anyone before her, and the longest-servin ...

, from 1872 to 1879. She was the daughter of the British admiral and nobleman Sir Thomas Baker and the Swedish noblewoman Sofia Augusta Ruuth. She married her cousin count Carl Erik Piper (1806–1875) in 1836. She served as ''

statsfru A lady-in-waiting or court lady is a female personal assistant at a court, attending on a royal woman or a high-ranking noblewoman. Historically, in Europe, a lady-in-waiting was often a noblewoman but of lower rank than the woman to whom sh ...

'' (

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) to queen Désirée in 1840-1850. She served as ''hovmästarinna'' (Senior lady-in-waiting) to crown princess Louise in 1850-1853, and succeeded as such by first Juliana Lovisa Posse and then

Stefanie Hamilton Stefanie Fredrika Hamilton (1819–1894) was a Swedish court official. She served as ''överhovmästarinna,'' or senior lady-in-waiting, to Louise of the Netherlands, the crown princess and later queen of Sweden, from 1857 to 1860. She was the da ...

. In 1872, after the accession of Oscar II, she was appointed Senior lady-in-waiting to the new queen, Sophia. She was described as an example of the old decadent court life when she was converted on her deathbed by the newly religious queen to the teachings of the British preacher

Lord Radstock Baron Radstock, of Castletown, County Laois, Castletown in the County Laois, Queen's County, was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created in 1800 for Vice-Admiral the Honourable William Waldegrave, 1st Baron Radstock, William Waldegrave. ...

.Anne-Marie Riiber (1959). Drottning Sophia. Uppsala: J. A. Lindblads Förlag. ISBN Piper left a collection of papers from her long court career, consisting of descriptions of court rituals, court events, invitations and similar papers, which was donated to the Göteborgs museums handskriftssamling ('Gothenburg Museum of Written Documents') in 1880.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Piper, Elisabet 1811 births 1879 deaths Mistresses of the Robes (Sweden)