I got this info by googling royal harpists: Past Royal Harpists include: William More
(sixteenth century), harpist to Henry VIII; Cormack MacDermott (1605); Philip Squire
(1618); Lewis Williams/Evans, harpist to James I, Charles I, and Charles II; Charles Evans
(1660); William Powell (died 1750), for whom Handel wrote his Harp Concerto, and the
blind harpist John Parry (1710-1782), harpists to the Prince of Wales; John Balsir
Chatterton (1840) and John Thomas (1871), harpists to Queen Victoria. Now Catrin Finch is
the Royal Harpist.