Named in honour of Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, queen consort to King William IV, the city was founded in 1836 as the planned capital for a freely settled British province in Australia.

* 1518 – Bona Sforza is crowned as queen consort of Poland.

* 1771 – Julie Clary, queen consort of Naples ( d. 1845 )

* 1709 – Louise Élisabeth d ' Orléans, queen consort of Spain ( d. 1742 )

As well as being Duchess of Aquitaine in her own right, she was queen consort of France ( 1137 – 1152 ) and of England ( 1154 – 1189 ).

Her official title was ' king ' rather than ' queen ', reflecting that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort.

The masculine gender of her title was also meant to emphasize that she was monarch in her own right, not a queen consort.

Joan married Alexander II of Scotland to become his queen consort.

While traditionally most monarchs have been male, female monarchs have also ruled in history ; the term queen regnant refers to a ruling monarch, as distinct from a queen consort, the wife of a reigning king.

* 1867 – Mary of Teck, queen consort of George V of the United Kingdom ( d. 1953 )

Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg ( 11 November 1599 – 28 March 1655 ) was a German princess and queen consort of Sweden.

In 1554, Mary married Philip of Spain, becoming queen consort of Habsburg Spain on his accession in 1556.

* 1389 – Isabella of Valois, queen consort of England ( d. 1409 )

Catherine de Médicis, the queen consort of King Henri II of France, was one of Nostradamus ' greatest admirers.

* Queen dowager, a former queen consort whose husband has died

Their daughter, Alice, married Sir John Fogge ; they were ancestors to queen consort Catherine Parr, sixth wife of King Henry VIII.

The " cave of the cats ," Oweynagat, is located near Rathcrogan, Co Roscommon, once the seat of queen Medb and her consort Ailill mac Máta.

* January 4 – Margherita of Savoy, queen consort of Italy ( b. 1851 )

* March 1 – Anna Pavlovna of Russia, queen consort of the Netherlands ( b. 1795 )

* Isabella of France ( c. 1295 – 1358 ) queen consort and regent of the Kingdom of England.

** Draga Mašin, Serbian queen consort ( b. 1861 )

* Eleanor of Aquitaine, queen consort of France and later of the Kingdom of England

* December 15 – Carola of Vasa, queen consort of Saxony ( b. 1833 )

* August 4 – Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon ( later Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, queen consort of George VI ; d. 2002 )

If we manage to keep track of a Bombus queen after she has left her feeding place, we may discover the snug little hideout which she has fixed up for herself when she woke up from her winter sleep.

The queen afterward keeps incubating and guarding her eggs like a mother hen, taking a sip from time to time from the rather liquid honey in her honey pots.

Simultaneously, males or drones are produced, mostly from the unfertilized eggs of workers, although a few may be produced by the queen.

Agnes Maria of Andechs-Merania ( died 1201 ), queen of France, was the daughter of Bertold IV ( died 1204 ), who was Count of Andechs, a castle and territory near Ammersee, Bavaria and from 1183 duke of Merania ( Istria ).

Alexander died in a fall from his horse in the dark while riding to visit the queen at Kinghorn in Fife on 18 March 1286 because it was her birthday the next day.

Amalasuntha ( also known as Amalasuentha, Amalaswintha, Amalasuintha, Amalswinthe or Amalasontha ) ( c. 495 – 30 April 534 / 535 ) was a queen of the Ostrogoths from 526 to 534.

The hostility to Agnes, it must be admitted, may be exaggerated by the chronicler William of Tyre, whom she prevented from becoming Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem decades later, as well as from William's continuators like Ernoul, who hints at a slight on her moral character: " car telle n ' est que roine doie iestre di si haute cite comme de Jherusalem " (" there should not be such a queen for so holy a city as Jerusalem ").

Akbar and his queen used to come here by foot on pilgrimage from Agra every year in observance of a vow when he prayed for a son.

* Shirley Temple Bar, drag queen from Dublin, Ireland

In the standard 52-card deck used in bridge, the ace is ranked highest followed by the king, queen, and jack and the spot-cards from ten down through to the two.

Worried all women will learn from this, Ahasuerus removes her as queen and has a royal decree sent across the empire that men should be the ruler of their households and should speak their own native tongue.

The queen was shortly afterwards brought from this place to the palace and vainly attempted to move Octavian to pity.

During the Renaissance, people transitioned from being subjects of a king or queen to being citizens of a city and later to a nation.

In All's Well That Ends Well Diana appears as a figure in the play and Helena makes multiple allusions to her, such as, " Now, Dian, from thy altar do I fly ..." and "... wish chastely and love dearly, that your Dian / was both herself and love ..." The Steward also says, "...; Dian no queen of virgins ,/ that

) In a song from the late Middle Ages about Olaf Liljekrans, the elven queen invites him to dance.

While in " high spirits " from the wine, he ordered his queen, Vashti, to appear before him and his guests to display her beauty.

To find a new queen suitable to King Xerxes, it was decreed that beautiful young virgins be gathered to the palace from every province of his kingdom.

In this respect she seems to have been more diligent than her now widowed and subsequently sainted mother-in-law Queen Matilda whose own charitable activities only achieve a single recorded mention from the period of Eadgyth's time as queen.

She is compared with Penthesilea, mythical queen of the Amazons, by the Greek historian Nicetas Choniates ; he adds that she gained the epithet chrysopous ( golden-foot ) from the cloth of gold that decorated and fringed her robe.

Elizabeth I ( known simply as " Elizabeth " until the accession of Elizabeth II ; 7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603 ) was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death.

Amy Dudley died in September 1560 from a fall from a flight of stairs and, despite the coroner's inquest finding of accident, many people suspected Dudley to have arranged her death so that he could marry the queen.

But his queen Frigg, desiring to go forth more beautified, called smiths, and had the gold stripped from the statue.