Elisabet Piper
Elisabet Augusta Piper was a Swedish court official. She served as överhovmästarinna to the queen of Sweden, Sophia of Nassau, 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 in 1836.
She served as statsfru to queen Désirée in 1840-1850. She was appointed hovmästarinna to crown princess Louise in 1850, and succeeded as such by Stefanie Hamilton in 1853. 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.
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 in 1880.
