Despite this, she was acknowledged only as Dowager Princess of Wales by Henry.

Catherine was demoted to Dowager Princess of Wales ( a title she would have held as the widow of Arthur ), and Mary was deemed illegitimate.

It was enlarged and extended by Augusta, Dowager Princess of Wales, the widow of Frederick, Prince of Wales, for whom Sir William Chambers built several garden structures.

His mother Augusta of Saxe-Gotha becomes Dowager Princess of Wales.

** 1126 – 1189 Imperial Princess Muneko ( 統子内親王 ) – Empress Dowager Zyōsai ( 上西門院 )

* August 7 – Joan of Kent, Dowager Princess of Wales, widow of Edward, the Black Prince ( b. 1328 )

Another exception was made in the case of the last royal princess to marry into the British Royal Family: Princess Marina who, being a Princess of Greece and Denmark by birth, reverted to her own princely style (" HRH Princess Marina, Duchess of Kent ") after being widowed, rather than take up the traditional style " HRH The Dowager Duchess of Kent ".

Her sister-in-law ( born The Lady Alice Montagu Douglas Scott ) was given special dispensation by HM The Queen to use a similar style when she was widowed (" HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ") despite not being a princess by birth, rather than the more usual widow's style, " HRH The Dowager Duchess of Gloucester ".

* Princess Dowager Ma, concubine of Zhang Jun

Dowager Electress Sophia called her " the most agreeable Princess in Germany ".

# Augusta of Saxe-Gotha ( 1736 – 1751 ) — Dowager Princess of Wales after her husband, Frederick, Prince of Wales, died.

She held the titles Duchess of York, Princess of Wales, Queen-Empress and Queen-Empress Dowager.

Those who did not generally took the title of " Dowager Princess of Wales " after the deaths of their husbands.

( Following the annulment of Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon, Catherine officially reverted to her earlier title of Dowager Princess of Wales, as the widow of Henry's older brother, Arthur, Prince of Wales, because Henry did not wish to acknowledge that he had ever been legally married to her.

* Dowager Princess Anne, his mother, from 1751 to her death in 1759 ;

* Dowager Princess Marie Louise, his grandmother, from 1759 to her death in 1765 ;

Known as l ' infante Reine ( Queen-Infanta ) while in France, she was placed in the care of the old Dowager Princess of Conti, Philippe's sister in law, and lived in the Tuileries Palace.

Dowager Stanley was a Spencer, from Althorp in Northamptonshire, of the family to which Diana Princess of Wales belonged.

Upon the Prince's death 20 years later, Alice became the Dowager Princess of Monaco.

* Her Serene Highness Princess Alice, The Dowager Princess of Monaco ( 1922 – 1925 )

As a compromise, the regency was vested in the Dowager Princess of Wales, who considered him an enemy, but her powers were curtailed and she was to be advised by a committee of twelve men, headed by Cumberland.

Whatever the truth Olympia, rather than face trial, subsequently fled France for Brussels in January 1680, leaving Eugene in the care of his father's mother, Marie de Bourbon, and her daughter, Hereditary Princess of Baden, mother of Prince Louis of Baden.

His mother was Princess Inoe, a daughter of Emperor Shōmu ; but instead of Osabe, it was Kammu who was later named to succeed their father.

His siblings were Princess Alice of Greece and Denmark ( mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh ), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven.

Mommu's mother was Princess Abe, a daughter of Emperor Tenji.

* Princess Futajiirihime ( 両道入姫命 ), wife of Yamatotakeru, mother of Emperor Chūai

* Diana, Princess of Wales, noblewoman, her mother, Frances Burke Roche was a descendant of the Earls of Fermoy

Her mother was Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel.

Lady Jane's mother was Lady Frances Brandon, the daughter of Suffolk and Princess Mary.

* January 20 – Frances Shand Kydd, Princess Diana's mother ( d. 2004 )

* March 16 – Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, mother of Queen Victoria ( b. 1786 )

Margaret's last public appearances were at the 101st birthday celebrations of her mother in August 2001, and the 100th birthday celebration of her aunt, Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester, that December.

The arrival of a minor on the Imperial saw the Empire thrown into confusion, allowing Otto III's mother, the Byzantine Princess Theophanu, to reign as his regent.

1000 – 1022, mother of king Anund Jacob of Sweden and the Kievan Rus ' Saint and Queen ( Grand Princess ) Ingegerd Olofsdotter.

* Sarah, Duchess of York ( former wife of HRH The Duke of York and the mother of HRH Princess Beatrice and HRH Princess Eugenie )

* HRH Princess Alice, Duchess of Gloucester ( widow of HRH The Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, and mother to the present Duke of Gloucester )

* Diana, Princess of Wales ( first wife of HRH The Prince of Wales, the mother of HRH The Duke of Cambridge and HRH Prince Harry )

Edward's elder sister, acting upon instructions from their mother, had met Princess Alexandra at Strelitz in June ; the young Danish princess made a very favourable impression.

She resented the fact that, as the wife of a younger son of the British sovereign, she had to yield precedence to George's mother, the Princess of Wales, whose father had been a minor German prince before being called unexpectedly to the throne of Denmark.

Her mother, Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, was a male-line grand-daughter of King George III and a first cousin of Queen Victoria.

By the terms of the English Act of Settlement 1701, George's mother, Sophia, was designated as the heir to the English throne if the then reigning monarch ( William III ) and his sister-in-law, Princess Anne of Denmark ( later Queen Anne ) died without surviving issue.

Immediately, a conflict ensued between the Princess Royal and William II's mother, Amalia of Solms-Braunfels, over the name to be given to the infant.

Her mother was Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge, the third child and younger daughter of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, and Princess Augusta of Hesse-Cassel.