• A queen dowager or dowager queen (compare: princess dowager or dowager princess) is a title or status generally held by the widow of a king. In the case...
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  • marriage, she was the Lady Zhao; after the king's death, she was the Queen Dowager (Chinese: 太后). The daughter of a prominent family of Zhao, she was a...
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  • unknown) formally Queen Dowager Xuan of Qin (Chinese: 秦宣太后; 338(?)–265 BC), also known as Mi Bazi (羋八子), was the first queen dowager in Chinese history...
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    the death of James IV at the Battle of Flodden in 1513, Margaret, as queen dowager, was appointed as regent for their son, King James V. A pro-French party...
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    formally a Queen but was known as Queen Dowager Jo (조대비) during the reign of her son before Cheoljong of Joseon granted her a proper title, Queen Dowager Hyoyu...
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  • Loamshire".) The term queen dowager is used in the United Kingdom and several other countries for the widow of a king; when the dowager is the mother of the...
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  • honoured as Queen Dowager Seongryeol (성렬왕대비) during the reign of her step-son, Yi Ho, King Injong. She was honored as Grand Queen Dowager Seongryeol (성렬대왕대비)...
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  • queen consort of Joseon by marriage to King Cheoljong. She was known as Queen Dowager Myeongsun (명순대비) after the death of her husband and during King Gojong's...
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  • the death of the previous monarch. A queen dowager is a widowed queen consort, and a queen mother is a queen dowager who is the mother of the current monarch...
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  • Majesty (redirect from HM The Queen Dowager)
    陛下) for the Emperor of Japan, the Empress, the Grand Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager are defined in The Imperial House Law since 1947. In 757, this...
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