Below you will find example sentences with "queen mother". The examples show how this phrase is used in natural context and which words often surround it.

Queen Mother in a sentence

Corpus data

  • Displayed example sentences: 20
  • Discovered as a combination around: queen
  • Corpus frequency in the collocation scan: 20
  • Phrase length: 2 words
  • Average sentence length: 29.5 words

Words in this phrase

queen mother

Meanings of words in this phrase

  • queen can mean: The wife, consort, or widow of a king. Frequent word
  • mother can mean: A female parent, especially of a human; a female who parents a child (which she has given birth to, adopted, or fostered). Common word

Sentence profile

  • Phrase position: 2 start, 11 middle, 7 end
  • Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Usage patterns

These patterns show short text windows around the phrase in the example sentences:

and the queen mother among past 1× and the queen mother came from 1× and the queen mother loved the 1× and the queen mother would attend 1× elizabeth ii queen mother and princess 1× elizabeth the queen mother 1× elizabeth the queen mother because the 1× elizabeth the queen mother during the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

at the heart 1× charles is spoken 1× elizabeth began to 1× elizabeth bowes lyon 1× frances would always 1× her drink of 1×

Common sentence endings:

age of 96 1× among past patients 1× dining room today 1× duchess of cambridge 1× east of england 1× elizabeth ii citation 1×

Context words

These words often appear near this phrase in the example sentences:

elizabeth 22× princess 4× margaret 3× kent 3× died 2× buckingham 2× palace 2× majesty 2× style 2× king 2× private 2× hospital 2×

Related phrases

queen elizabeth mother grandmother mother day queen victoria queen anne queen camilla queen mary loving mother drag queen loved mother

Phrases around this combination

Other phrases discovered around queen:

queen elizabeth 20× queen victoria 14× queen camilla 12× queen mary 12× drag queen 9×

Just before it in the phrase index:

queen mary queen elizabeth queen camilla queen anne quarterly revenue quarterly report

Just after it in the phrase index:

queen victoria quest pro question mark question marks questions posed questions regarding

Other phrases with the same pattern

Same start:

queen elizabeth queen victoria queen anne queen camilla queen mary

Same ending:

loving mother loved mother elderly mother foster mother beloved mother

Corpus analysis

  • The phrase "queen mother" has 2 words and usually appears in the middle in these examples. The average sentence has 29.5 words and is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around this phrase, patterns and context words such as and the queen mother among past, and the queen mother came from, elizabeth, princess and margaret stand out.
  • In the phrase index, this combination connects with queen elizabeth, mother grandmother, mother day, queen elizabeth, queen victoria and queen camilla, linking the page to nearby combinations.

Example types with queen mother

This selection groups the examples by length and sentence type, making usage of the full phrase easier to scan:

Short example sentences

Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother. (5 words)

Charles is spoken to by his grandmother, Elizabeth the Queen Mother during the Queen's Coronation. (16 words)

Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mother and Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in May 1995. (17 words)

Longer example sentences

The coronations of George VI and Queen Elizabeth II saw the hotel filled with royalty from around the world and the Queen Mother loved the hotels Eggs Drumkilbo dish (served with lobster) that is still sold in the hotel's Dining Room today. (43 words)

Elizabeth began to be styled as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother because the normal style for the widow of a king, "Queen Elizabeth", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II. citation. (42 words)

I say misfortune because, in the 95 years of history it takes in, from the Queen Mother’s marriage to the present day, only three royal wives have happy endings (The Queen Mum, Sophie Wessex and the Duchess of Cambridge). (40 words)

Example sentences (20)

When the Queen Mother died in 2002 aged 101, a statement from Buckingham Palace said: "Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother has bequeathed her entire estate (which mainly comprises the contents of her houses) to The Queen.

Elizabeth began to be styled as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother because the normal style for the widow of a king, "Queen Elizabeth", would have been too similar to the style of her elder daughter, now Queen Elizabeth II. citation.

Her drink of choice was gin and tonic, just like the late Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, she said, as well as "the young one," referring to Queen Elizabeth II who died in 2022 at the age of 96.

The Queen quoted by Princess Margaret, in Warwick, p.186 The Queen was counselled by her private secretary to post Townsend abroad, but she refused, instead transferring him from the Queen Mother's household to her own.

This was in 1947 when the King, accompanied by Queen Elizabeth (later the Queen Mother), Princess Elizabeth (later Queen Elizabeth II) and Princess Margaret were travelling to South Africa.

Nurse Aimee O’Rourke, 39, also a mother-of-three, passed away after being treated at The Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital in Kent where she worked.

One of the few framed photos includes a picture of his mother Queen Elizabeth II, father Prince Philip, and his grandmother the Queen Mother.

Charles is spoken to by his grandmother, Elizabeth the Queen Mother during the Queen's Coronation.

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Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, later Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother, came from a family which had owned mines in the north east of England.

After that, every year, on the anniversary of his death (6 February) the Queen and the Queen Mother would attend a small private service in his memory, either at Sandringham or sometimes at Windsor.

At the heart of the attraction is the National Memorial to the Few, dedicated to those who won the Battle of Britain in 1940 and unveiled by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother in 1993.

Frances would always be there to greet the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh when they arrived at Balmoral, and would be invited to the Ghillies Ball and have drinks with the Queen Mother at Birkhall.

One of Ellen’s favourite memories is of the time she met Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, while on active service.

Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother.

The coronations of George VI and Queen Elizabeth II saw the hotel filled with royalty from around the world and the Queen Mother loved the hotels Eggs Drumkilbo dish (served with lobster) that is still sold in the hotel's Dining Room today.

There have been 151 deaths reported by East Kent Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust since March 22. William Harvey, Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother and Kent and Canterbury hospitals are all part of this trust.

Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mother and Princess Margaret on the balcony of Buckingham Palace in May 1995.

I say misfortune because, in the 95 years of history it takes in, from the Queen Mother’s marriage to the present day, only three royal wives have happy endings (The Queen Mum, Sophie Wessex and the Duchess of Cambridge).

Opened in 1899, the Marylebone institution is favoured among senior royals, with Philip, the Queen, Prince Charles and the Queen Mother among past patients.

Peter Jackson, the captain of the QE2 responded to the Queen Mother's welcome: "Please convey to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth our thanks for her kind message.

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