The groom of the stool was more like a bathroom attendent, taking your coat and giving you aftershave. Valued bcos of how vulnerable the monarch is around the groom.
Tom's retort at 10:42 had my sides hurting from laughter. Also worth remembering that a lot of royalty had people who dressed them in all their fancy clothes, so those sorts of attendants were probably not that uncommon or odd to them at the time.
