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Queen regent   /kwin rˈidʒənt/   Listen
Queen regent

noun
1.
A queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot.





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"Queen regent" Quotes from Famous Books



... born in Fifeshire in the year 1530, of a family patronized by the queen regent, Mary of Guise, who having taken into her own service his brothers Robert and Andrew, both afterwards noted in public life, determined to send James to France to be brought up as page to the queen her daughter, then dauphiness. He was accordingly placed under the care of the crafty ...
— Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth • Lucy Aikin
... Jaffnapatam, which became the capital of the Portuguese power in that island. The high character of the young prince, no less than his courage and his enterprise, caused the Rajas of India to treat him with great respect, and he was begged by the Queen Regent to continue in office, and even to accept the post of Viceroy of India for life. He refused, and in 1561 was succeeded as Viceroy by Dom Francisco de Coutinho, ...
— Rulers of India: Albuquerque • Henry Morse Stephens
... the Queen Regent of Portugal. She was daughter of the Duke de Medina Sidonia and widow of Juan IV. The Court wore the deepest mourning on this occasion. The ladies were directed to wear their hair plain, and to appear without spots on their faces, the disfiguring ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys


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