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A queen mother is a former queen consort, often a queen dowager, who is the mother of the reigning monarch. The term's usage in English dates back to the early 1560s. It arose in hereditary monarchies
The widowed mother of Queen Elizabeth II was known as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
Queen Hedwig Eleanor of Sweden (née Princess of Holstein-Gottorp) was twice regent of that country, once for her only son, once for a grandson
Duchess Ingeborg was regent of Norway and Sweden 1318–1319
Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was als
Queen mother
…a number of similar yet distinct monarchical concepts in non-European cultures around the world. "The Queen Mother" usually, in English, refers to Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother (queen consort, 1936–1952; queen mother, 1952–2002), who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II and one of the few people to use the term as an official…
Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother, 1986
Elizabeth in 1909
At a charity sale event in 1915
Portrait by Philip de László, 1925