queen regent
Temporary female ruler
A queen regent is a queen who rules in place of a monarch who is absent, incapacitated, or too young to govern.
Unlike a queen regnant, who rules in her own right, a queen regent holds power temporarily on behalf of another—typically her minor child: Catherine de' Medici served as queen regent during her son's minority.
- dowagerTitled widow of nobility
- throneCeremonial chair for sovereigns
- iron throneMonarch's seat of swords
- crownSovereign's ornamental headpiece
- crown jewelsSovereign's ceremonial treasures
sovereign · monarchy · royal court · heir · prince · widow · ruler · empress · consort · power behind the throne · guardian · succession · line of succession · kingdom · power · motherhood · coronation · dynasty
- Queens & Royaltymonarch, sovereign, crown, throne, princess
- Royal Womenempress, princesses, consorts, empresses, crown princess
- regents
- royal successionthrone, succession, line of succession, order of succession, succession line
- temporary rulersacting president, interim president, interim leader
- Queensqueendom, Victoria, Elizabeth I, Elizabeth II, Cleopatra
ruling authority status
queen regentabsolute monarch
Ruler with total authority
heir apparent · dauphin · commoner · subject · crown prince
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