queen mother

The queen mother was said to have died with an overdraft at Coutts of more than £2 million; it was settled by her daughter.

The queen mother, like most of the royal family, was relaxed about their relationship.

All our leaders would lose their heads if a single imprudent act allowed their connivance with the queen-mother to be seen.

This annoyance was not the least among the many which the queen-mother cherished against the young queen.

Then she seized a bell, at the sound of which one of the queen-mother's maids of honor came running in.

The young queen and queen-mother maintained a total silence until the arrival of the king and princes.

She glanced from Christophe to the queen-mother and from the queen-mother back to Christophe,—her face expressing malignant doubt.