Queen Regnant

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A queen regnant is a qualifying reference to a female monarch (queen) possessing and exercising all of the monarchical powers of a ruler, in contrast to a "queen consort", who is the wife of a male reigning as monarch and who is without any official powers of state. In Ancient Egypt, Pacific cultures, and even in historical European countries, as noted below, women monarchs have been given the title king or its equivalent, such as pharaoh, when gender is irrelevant to the office. Also the Byzantine Empress Irene called herself basileus (ß¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), 'emperor', rather than basilissa (ß¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿), 'empress'. And Jadwiga of Poland was crowned as Rex Poloniae, King of Poland.

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