Talk:Maid of honour

Age contradiction
The second and third paragraph contradict each other:
 * A maid of honour was a maiden, meaning that she was unmarried, and was usually young. Lady Jane Grey, for example, served as a maid of honour to Queen Catherine Parr in about 1546-48, when Jane was only about ten to twelve years old.


 * Maids of honour were almost always in their sixteenth year or older.

Where they eleven or sixteen? --85.177.148.15 (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 02:41, 9 December 2013 (UTC)

Contradiction
The paragraph, At her coronation, Queen Elizabeth II had Maids of Honour who attended her throughout the ceremony, especially carrying the trains of her robes. The last Maid of Honour was retired in 1936. contains a clear contradiction as the coronation was in 1953. At least one of the sentences must be untrue: which is it? Phil Bridger (talk) 07:52, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup...
I have some concerns about the page as-is. History and role are badly mixed-up and somewhat jumbled, there is contradictory information about ages, and there are only sources for minor aspect, not for the core of the article. --Stephan Schulz (talk) 11:09, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

Maids of Honour Cake
The incongruous inclusion of this topic withing the scope of Wikiproject Food and Drink is probably due to existence of a cake called a Maid of Honour, for which an image exists http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Maids_of_Honour_Cakes_%282548782629%29.jpg but no article in its own right.96.54.42.226 (talk) 06:33, 10 November 2012 (UTC)