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Queen Regnant

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A queen who holds the crown in her own right, in contradistinction to a Queen Consort, who is queen only because her husband is king.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Queen
Queen (The White)
Queen Anne is Dead
Queen Anne’s Bounty
Queen Anne’s Style (of architecture)
Queen Consort
Queen Dick
Queen Dowager
Queen Passion (The Great)
Queen Quintessence
Queen Regnant
Queen-Square Hermit
Queen of Hearts
Queen of Heaven
Queen of the Dripping-pan
Queen of the Eastern Archipelago
Queen of the May
Queen of the North
Queen of the Northern Seas
Queen’s Bench
Queen’s College (Oxford)