queen mother

noun

: a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web The clock ticks and the camera races, but for all the tension there’s predictably zero suspense: T’Challa is soon dead, leaving the princess and the queen mother, Ramonda (Angela Bassett), to grieve with their subjects. —

Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023 Yet for a country that reveres its queen, the funeral of her husband was a genuine national moment — on a par, some said, with the funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the queen mother, in 2002, which drew more than 1 million people to watch her cortege pass from Westminster Abbey to Windsor Castle. —

BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021 The queen mother declares that’s how it’s always been, which is madness to Margaret. —

Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 16 Nov. 2020 The clock ticks and the camera races, but for all the tension there’s predictably zero suspense: T’Challa is soon dead, leaving the princess and the queen mother, Ramonda (Angela Bassett), to grieve with their subjects. —

Los Angeles Times, 24 Jan. 2023 The friend had presumably overlooked the new color schemes and upholsteries that Mr. Kime had chosen for the house, which had by then been passed on to the Prince of Wales, the queen mother having died in 2002. —

Alex Williams, New York Times, 31 Aug. 2022 So far this is all presented in the gauzy manner of a Hallmark Channel film, which makes Ginny’s disturbing flashbacks to her own childhood, in which her stern father and ice-queen mother were not exactly dog lovers, all the more odd. —

Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Jan. 2023 The clock ticks and the camera races, but for all the tension there’s predictably zero suspense: T’Challa is soon dead, leaving the princess and the queen mother, Ramonda (Angela Bassett), to grieve with their subjects. —

Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2023 At some point, every last one of the top royals graced the magazine's pages, starting with the queen mother on through to Prince Harry and Meghan. —

Leanne Italie, ajc, 23 Dec. 2022 See More

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