queen

The late queen opened the first National Assembly for Wales - the previous incarnation of the Senedd - in 1999, and every post-election session until 2022.

From BBC ● Oct. 15, 2026

"Claudiapatra!" gasped model and actress Jerry Hall - spotting similarities in both grandeur and hairstyles between Claudia and Cleopatra, the Egyptian queen.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Sporting knee-high boots and her platinum tresses loose, the 68-year-old pop queen sang "Bring Your Love" alongside Sabrina Carpenter before medleying with Charli XCX for "Danceteria."

From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026

The future queen was brought up under strict rules and the constant surveillance maintained by her widowed mother’s adviser, John Conroy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

“The king and queen do not want us to live in this land anymore.”

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

David Starkey’s account of Henry VIII’s reign takes us, day by day, from Greenwich and Westminster to Hampton Court, alongside Henry and his successive queens.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The revisionist approach of “Six Wives” has traveled beyond a scholarly audience: Portraits of the queens such as those in Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s musical “Six” owe much to Mr. Starkey’s perspective.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The show sees drag queens compete in a series of challenges to impress judges RuPaul, Michelle Visage, Graham Norton and Alan Carr, and often features big name celebrity guest judges.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

“All those drag queens, sometimes I see some of them look more like me than I do,” said the star, who famously lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026

They were like medieval kings and queens in their moated castles, wanting to lift the drawbridge and shut out every possible threat.

From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

Rxa8, and White soon to be queened pawn will help deliver checkmates in a couple of moves.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

Wen Ho, the silent and inscrutable, went out of the valley for provisions, and during his absence Joan queened it in the kitchen.

From The Branding Iron by Katharine Newlin Burt

She still queened it over her own household; she alone still had the delightful task of making a man comfortable.

From Half Portions by Edna Ferber

In the majority of games, either one or the other player remains at the close with a pawn, which has to be queened.

From Hoyle's Games Modernized by Louis Hoffmann

Imagination conjured up scenes in the summer garden where the gay pretty girl had held her little court, and queened it over the grave, silent man.

From The Lady of the Basement Flat by Elizabeth Earnshaw

Black can’t be stopped from finally queening the charmed a-pawn, and White resigns the final position as mate is in the offing on 79.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 28, 2023

Rxc5 Rxf3, when’s Sorokin’s pieces cover each other magnificently and the passed d-pawn nears the queening square.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

Kxg2 b5!, and White resigns as he has no pawn on b2 to stop Black’s a-pawn from queening after 49. axb5 a4.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 29, 2022

There would have been no Elton John, queening in front of millions, or David Bowie, who freely credited Little Richard’s inspiration.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

Kinging and queening themselves in spite of everything!

From When a Cobbler Ruled a King by Augusta Huiell Seaman