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For the Jubilee is being celebrated in former colonies at least as fervently as in Britain and the 15 other countries of which she remains "Queen Regnant."

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 2, 2012

The prospect of another Queen Regnant on the British throne is scarcely less fascinating to George's white subjects.

From Time Magazine Archive

His wife had given an unprecedented proof of conjugal submission and affection; and the very least return that could be made to her would be to bestow on her the dignity of Queen Regnant.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

It seems to me that the momentous day just described was the last of Victoria's real girlhood; that premature womanhood was thrust upon her with all the power, grandeur, and state of a Queen Regnant.

From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Greenwood, Grace

Most of Her Majesty's loyal subjects deny that any harm came to her from her unsupported position as Queen Regnant, or that she was capable of being thus harmed—but the Queen knows best.

From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Greenwood, Grace