Elisabet Charlotta Piper
Elisabet Charlotta Piper, was a Swedish court official. She served as överhovmästarinna to the crown princess of Sweden, Josephine of Leuchtenberg, from 1823 to 1835.
She was the daughter of count Eric Ruuth and Elisabet Charlotta Wahrendorff, and married her sisters brother-in-law the courtier count Erik Piper in 1805, with whom she had two children.
She was appointed senior lady-in-waiting upon the arrival of the new crown princess in 1823. She was persuaded to accept the post after it had been declined by Aurora Wilhelmina Brahe:
Jacob De la Gardie described her:
Queen Désirée compared her favorably to her own senior lady-in-waiting Vilhelmina Gyldenstolpe in a letter to her sister Julie Clary in March 1831:
She was succeeded by Charlotta Skjöldebrand in 1836.
