queen dowager
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The list includes three former prime ministers of Canada, the queen dowager of Jordan and at least five members of the Qatari ruling family.
From New York Times • Nov. 7, 2017
The judges are Johnny Iuzzini, who spent two seasons as the judge of Bravo’s Top Chef: Just Desserts, and Bake Off’s reigning queen dowager Mary Berry.
From The Guardian • Nov. 30, 2015
Queen's Gambit, Fremantle's debut novel, is a historical romance based on the career of Henry's last wife, Katherine Parr, who uniquely survived to become queen dowager.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2013
The plot failed, and the queen dowager was shut up, where she remained till her death, "in prison, poverty, and solitude."
From Historic Doubts on the Life and Reign of King Richard the Third by Walpole, Horace
But the courtiers, and the queen dowager herself, were altogether bewildered when the king, having liberated the woodcutter and his family, brought Rose to the palace as his wife.
From The Fairy Book The Best Popular Stories Selected and Rendered Anew by Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock
