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queen mother

NOUN
  1. a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign

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  • The annual St George's Day parade was her first weekend of public engagements since the end of the official period of mourning following the death of the Queen Mother and the memorial service for Princess Margaret.
  • The news that the Queen Mother was in fact a comic turn grabbed the next day's headlines.
  • The first headmistress of Altrincham Grammar School for Girls was once a tutor to royal children and the school is to be given priceless sketches of the Queen Mother and the Prince of Wales by Salford artist Harold Riley to mark the occasion.
  • During my time as press officer I met the Queen, the Queen Mother, Princess Anne and Captain Mark Philips.
  • And by the time I was cracking eggs into the pan to go with a pile of toast, he was larking about, making sarcastic remarks about the Queen Mother and her 101st birthday, and it was clear no harm had been done.
  • In the acres of newsprint and hours of film footage devoted over the past week to the Queen Mother not even a passing mention has been made of her first cousin.
  • Massed pipes and drums from 14 regiments accompanied the gun carriage bearing the Queen Mother from Westminster Hall to the Abbey in a moving spectacle of pomp and pageantry.
  • We were not allowed to read of the Queen Mother's foibles, of course, perhaps because she achieved fame not through talent but via marriage and matriarchy.
  • In the last year rumours drifted forth that the BBC illuminati had no intention of allowing either the Jubilee or the possible death of the Queen Mother to be a time with nothing but deferential respect.
  • Flowers, left by local people, fill the porch of the 19 th-century chapel where the Queen Mother was a regular worshipper.
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