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A queen dowager or dowager queen (compare: princess dowager or dowager princess) is a title or status generally held by the widow of a king. In the case of the widow of an emperor, the title of empress dowager is used. Its full meaning is clear from the two words from which it is composed: queen indicates someone who served as queen consort (i.e. wife of a king), while dowager indicates a woman who continues to hold the title from her deceased husband (a queen who reigns in her own right is a queen regnant). A queen mother is a former queen consort, often a dowager queen, who is the mother of the reigning monarch.
Currently (2019) there are five queens dowager: Kesang Choden of Bhutan (who is the only living queen grandmother worldwide), Norodom Monineath of Cambodia (who is also queen mother), Lisa Najeeb Halaby (Noor Al'Hussein) of Jordan, and Sirikit Kitiyakara of Thailand (who is also queen mother). Princess Latifah of Morocco is dowager princess since her husband's death and is now also a princess mother since her son is now king.
A queendowager or dowagerqueen (compare: princess dowager or dowager princess) is a title or status generally held by the widow of a king. In the case...
marriage, she was the Lady Zhao; after the king's death, she was the QueenDowager (Chinese: 太后). The daughter of a prominent family of Zhao, she was a...
unknown) formally QueenDowager Xuan of Qin (Chinese: 秦宣太后; 338(?)–265 BC), also known as Mi Bazi (羋八子), was the first queendowager in Chinese history...
the death of James IV at the Battle of Flodden in 1513, Margaret, as queendowager, was appointed as regent for their son, King James V. A pro-French party...
formally a Queen but was known as QueenDowager Jo (조대비) during the reign of her son before Cheoljong of Joseon granted her a proper title, QueenDowager Hyoyu...
Loamshire".) The term queendowager is used in the United Kingdom and several other countries for the widow of a king; when the dowager is the mother of the...
honoured as QueenDowager Seongryeol (성렬왕대비) during the reign of her step-son, Yi Ho, King Injong. She was honored as Grand QueenDowager Seongryeol (성렬대왕대비)...
queen consort of Joseon by marriage to King Cheoljong. She was known as QueenDowager Myeongsun (명순대비) after the death of her husband and during King Gojong's...
the death of the previous monarch. A queendowager is a widowed queen consort, and a queen mother is a queendowager who is the mother of the current monarch...
and historical periods. A queendowager or empress dowager is the widow of a king or emperor; a queen mother is a queendowager who is also the mother of...
陛下) for the Emperor of Japan, the Empress, the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager are defined in The Imperial House Law since 1947. In 757, this...
Henry's death in 1547, Catherine was allowed to keep the queen's jewels and dresses as queendowager. About six months after Henry's death, she married her...
Kīnaʻu (c. 1805–1839), queen consort, queen regent and dowagerqueen of Hawaiʻi Elizabeth of Sicily, Queen of Hungary (1261–1303), queen consort of Hungary...
the wife of a reigning king Queen or QUEEN may also refer to: Queendowager, the widow of a king Queen mother, a queendowager who is the mother of a reigning...
Woodville was accorded the title and honours of a queendowager. Scholars differ about why DowagerQueen Elizabeth spent the last five years of her life...
of a reigning king. Nevertheless, she was honored as Queen Insu (인수왕후) and later as QueenDowager Insu (인수왕대비) during the reign of her son Yi Hyeol, King...
multiple awards at 2012 MBC Drama Awards, including Drama of the Year. The QueenDowager orders the assassination of her stepson in order to protect her own...
she was honoured as QueenDowager Yesun (예순왕대비) during the reign of her step-grandson Yi San, King Jeongjo and as Grand QueenDowager Yesun (예순대왕대비) during...
Joseon monarch. She was queen consort of Joseon from 1702 until her husband's death in 1720. She was honoured as QueenDowager Hyesun (Korean: 혜순왕대비) during...
Dynasty. After his death in 1849, she was known as Queen Mother Myeongheon (명헌대비; 明憲大妃) and later QueenDowager Myeongheon (명헌왕대비; 明憲王大妃) during King Cheoljong’s...
was the queen consort and wife of Sunjo of Joseon. She was known as QueenDowager Myeonggyeong (명경왕대비) after her husband's death in 1834. She served as...
and queen of Yi Yu, King Sejo. She was Queen of Joseon from 1455 until her husband's death in 1468, after which she was honoured as QueenDowager Jaseong...
A queen mother is a former queen, often a queendowager, who is the mother of the reigning monarch. The term has been used in English since the early...
1479 until her husband's death in 1495, after she was then honoured as QueenDowager Jasun (자순왕대비) during the reigns of her adoptive son, King Yeonsan from...
following is a list of queen consorts, queendowagers and grand queendowagers of Kingdom of Joseon and empress consort and empress dowager of Korean Empire...
Queen Heonae of the Hwangju Hwangbo clan (Korean: 헌애왕후 황보씨; Hanja: 獻哀王后 皇甫氏; 964 – 20 January 1029), or formally called Grand QueenDowager Heonae (Korean: 헌애왕태후;...
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