queen dowager
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The list includes three former prime ministers of Canada, the queen dowager of Jordan and at least five members of the Qatari ruling family.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017
The judges are Johnny Iuzzini, who spent two seasons as the judge of Bravo’s Top Chef: Just Desserts, and Bake Off’s reigning queen dowager Mary Berry.
From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2015
Queen's Gambit, Fremantle's debut novel, is a historical romance based on the career of Henry's last wife, Katherine Parr, who uniquely survived to become queen dowager.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2013
The queen dowager and other royal female personages are intermingled among them.
From Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants by Head, James H.
Cranmer lost this year the most sincere and powerful friend that he possessed at court, Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk; the queen dowager of France, consort to Suffolk, had died some years before.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by Hume, David
