 In the Middle Ages persons of wealth and power often slept in a chamber (Latin "camera"), alongside which a secure room or wardrobe ("garderoba") would be provided for storage of clothes and other valuables.In the royal household, the Chamber came to represent the king's nearest advisers.Before long the Wardrobe emerged, under the auspices of the Chamber, to become an administrative body in its own right, providing secure storage for the robes, treasures, archives and armaments of the king.