In Government and Monarchy
- Queen regnant, a female monarch of equivalent status to a male king
- Any of the three currently living queens regnant:
- Beatrix of the Netherlands (born 1938), Queen regnant of the Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Elizabeth II (born 1926), Queen regnant of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms
- Margrethe II of Denmark (born 1940), Queen regnant of the Kingdom of Denmark
- Queen consort, the wife of a reigning king
- Queen dowager, a former queen consort whose husband has died
- Queen mother, either a queen dowager, or a queen regnant who has abdicated, whose son or daughter has become the monarch
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