queen regent
IPA: kwˈinrˈidʒʌnt
noun
- a queen who serves as ruler when the king cannot
Examples of "queen-regent" in Sentences
- Their hostility to the queen-regent was intensified by the events of the year 1558-59.
- In 1834 the queen-regent authorized the Estatuto Real, a sort of moderate constitution.
- The queen-regent was surrounded by worthless favorites and was hated by the Huguenots, who feared her rigid
- It was unfortunate for the queen-regent that, at this particular juncture, she was entering into strained relations with the Reformers.
- The queen-regent was imprisoned and the subservient parliament abolished the papal supremacy and enacted the death penalty against any one who should even attend Catholic worship.
- She wore a little grey dress of the most undecorated fashion, and Isabel wondered, as she had wondered the first time, if her remarkable kinswoman resembled more a queen-regent or the matron of a gaol.
- She wore a little grey dress, of the most undecorated fashion, and Isabel wondered, as she had wondered the first time, whether her remarkable kinswoman resembled more a queen-regent or the matron of a gaol.
- It is not surprising, under the circumstances, that the session of 1614 lasted but three weeks and ended as a farce: the queen-regent locked up the halls and sent the representatives home -- she needed the room for a dance, she said.
- A commission from the queen-regent, dated 20th April 1669, commanded her governors in the Indies to make open war against the English; [282] and a fleet of six vessels, carrying from eighteen to forty-eight guns, was sent from Spain to cruise against the buccaneers.
- Thus Cardinal Beaton, head of the Catholic Church in Scotland, ordered numerous executions on the score of protecting religion and the authority of the queen-regent; on the other hand several noblemen, professing the new theology, assassinated the cardinal and hung his body on the battlements of the castle of St. Andrews (1546).