British queen mothers

The title of Queen mother is defined as "a queen dowager who is the mother of the reigning sovereign".

[1][2] A queen mother is a person satisfying the following criteria: Queen mother does not mean mother of the Queen; it applies whether the current monarch is queen or king.

As a queen dowager, a queen mother assumes the style of "Her Majesty Queen [first name]" upon her husband’s death.

The following is a list of women who can be classified as Queen Mother at some point in their lives.

English Queen Mothers (title not used in earlier periods) House of Wessex House of Denmark House of Plantagenet House of Lancaster House of York Scottish Queen Mothers (title not used in earlier periods) House of Dunkeld House of Stuart English and Scottish Queen Mothers (post Union of the Crowns) House of Stuart British Queen Mothers House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, renamed the House of Windsor in 1917