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queen dowager
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queen dowager
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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the widow of a king
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Noun1.queen dowager - the widow of a kingqueen dowager - the widow of a king                  
queen - the wife or widow of a king
queen mother - a queen dowager who is mother of the reigning sovereign
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Traditionally, a dowager Queen would slip into the shadows.
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Diaries of the time tell us he needed her moral support throughout the ceremony, so much so that by being in the Abbey she broke a centuries-old tradition that no dowager queen was present at a crowning.
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