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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 729 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from See also:root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " See also:kin," &c.)  , the See also:title of the See also:consort or wife of a See also:king (" See also:queen consort" ), or of a woman who is herself the See also:sovereign ruler of a See also:state (" queen regnant" ); the widow of a former reigning sovereign is a " queen See also:dowager," and, when the See also:mother of the reigning sovereign, a " queen mother." For the position of the queen in See also:English constitutional See also:law see CONSORT, and for her See also:household see HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL .

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