Show the queeni yue eni milb the eight unmarried ladies who hold offices as the queens maids of honor are given the prefix of honorable and on marrying receive from the queen the gift of one thousand pounds one or two maids of lionor may reside for a fortnight at a time at endsor or osborne but her majesty seldom takes more than one to scotland the dowry of a maid of honor has been for at least one hundred and lifty years but is according to her maje pleasure and in 1708 it was refused to one lady who engaged herself in marriage without the of her royal mistress |