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
His spouse, the queen dowager, died in childbed; but so far from regarding this event as a check to his aspiring views, he founded on it the scheme of a more extraordinary elevation.
From The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary by David Hume
The queen of England is either queen regent, queen consort, or queen dowager.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
