queen-regent

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.

The Portrait of a Lady 2003

It was unfortunate for the queen-regent that, at this particular juncture, she was entering into strained relations with the Reformers.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

Their hostility to the queen-regent was intensified by the events of the year 1558-59.

An Outline of the Relations between England and Scotland (500-1707) Robert S. Rait

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).

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

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.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

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 Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

The queen-regent was surrounded by worthless favorites and was hated by the Huguenots, who feared her rigid

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

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.

The Buccaneers in the West Indies in the XVII Century Clarence Henry Haring 1922

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.

Chapter LIV 1917

In 1834 the queen-regent authorized the Estatuto Real, a sort of moderate constitution.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913