Talk:Regina Rys/@comment-27680174-20171123175731/@comment-3452092-20171204005100

After doing some research on it, it appears that Regina is the Queen Dowager (although this is muddied by the fact that her husband stepped down rather than died), but as the former Queen consort, the title of Queen is the one you pull for such a phrase as Queen Mother and there is apparently precident for the stepmother of the current king to be called Queen Mother (the stepmother of the current king of Jordan I think). They definitely agreed (and discussed) the idea that King Mother was not correct no matter what the situation as apparently Princess Diana suggested the idea that (assuming of course she would still be alive when William took the throne, which obviously didn't happen) when her son took the throne she would be the King Mother and this brought ridicule from certain corners. It was a little unclear from what I read if there have been any one called Queen Mother prior to the last century, but there have been more than one (I think at least three were mentioned in the conversation) in that time frame.

Obviously as I was reading a conversation, it wasn't the definitive anything, but they did have a lot of things that they referenced and it was definitely clear that there have been more than one Queen Mother and that technically a queen mother is a queen dowager (I keep wanting to say Dowager Queen since I read a lot of things that have Dowager Duchesses). There was also mention of Empress Dowagers (although as this was not what was being discussed, they didn't mention any specific ones, so I don't know if that is an abstract term or an actual title that has been used). Basically though the Queen part has to do with her former title and not that of her child/stepchild.

It was a little confusing at times.