queen

"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 Halloween episode will be hosted by newly minted horror queen Inde Navarrette from the hit film “Obsession,” joined by musical guest Gracie Abrams.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026

“And with you securing her daughter here with us, well, that was a brilliant move,” Aunt Kitty said, like we were playing a game of chess and I’d just taken the queen.

From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan

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

With a fanbase that included grandmas and Gen-Zers, Republicans and Democrats, drag queens and evangelicals, Parton was a kind of unicorn in America's polarised society.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

The kings and queens curl up, turn black, and disappear.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake

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

From Washington Times ● Nov. 8, 2022

If once I had patronized Ellen, it was her turn now, and she queened it over me ruthlessly.

From Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman by Willie Walker Caldwell

The men of the company stood idly by, flirting and smoking and provoking giggles and pretty foolish speeches from the girls, who queened it openly on these occasions.

From Where Deep Seas Moan by E. Gallienne Robin

Deleah, who if she had chosen might have queened it over them all.

From Mrs. Day's Daughters by Mary E. Mann

But the Castle itself, that had crowned the hill with its shining battlemented twin-towers, and had queened the landscape far and wide--where was it?

From Regina or the Sins of the Fathers by Hermann Sudermann

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

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

Black’s bishop pair and passed queenside pawns make the win more difficult, but Short navigates the tactical shoals to bring home the point while keeping the Black b-pawn from queening.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 5, 2021

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

She rather fancied the picture of herself, clothed in more or less authority and queening it over her little army of teachers.

From The Brown Mouse by Herbert Quick