queenship

Example Sentences

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This second installment in the series is a fantasy romance between Gemma, a war monk turned reluctant princess, and Quinn, an affable, annoying centaur helping her build alliances for her blacksmith sister’s claim to queenship.

From New York Times

Gemma’s sister Keeley’s claim to queenship rests on her desire to protect the powerless, in contrast to the coldness and calculation of Beatrix, the series’ villain.

From New York Times

The unusual fact of her queenship meant that her body was under substantial scrutiny.

From Slate

The historian and novelist Alison Weir has made queenship a staple of her work: Her backlist focuses almost exclusively on women of the 12th through 16th centuries.

From Washington Post

In other words, in the long run of medieval queenship, this story is by its very nature an outlier.

From Washington Post