Queen

A Queen is the title given to a female monarch. A (plural: queens regnant) is equivalent in rank to a king, who reigns in her own right, in contrast to a, who is the wife of a reigning king, or a queen regent, who is the guardian of a child monarch and reigns temporarily in the child's stead.

Quotes

 * QUEEN, n. A woman by whom the realm is ruled when there is a king, and through whom it is ruled when there is not.
 * Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1911).


 * The insuperable objection to monarchy is that the king or queen is elevated, and respect is accorded, for no reason other than birth ... No one who believes either in the claims of merit or in the pursuit of equality can defend the system.
 * Mervyn Jones, 1977. Quoted in 100 good reasons to be a Republican, "New Statesman" (August 2000).


 * Passed the pub that saps your body And the church who'll snatch your money The Queen is dead, boys And it's so lonely on a limb
 * Morrissey,  (1986).


 * It is true that the queen does not have a political sphere of action, but she has a large domestic sphere of action. Her excellence befits her for the education of her sex, the supervision of children in their first years, in the household manners, the provisions to the poor and the sick (particularly of those of her sex), the tasteful decoration of the house, the arrangement of family celebrations, and the establishment of the courtly activity according to law.
 * Novalis, "Faith and Love; or, the King and the Queen" (1798) in Novalis Schriften, Volume 2 (1907), p. 153–154