vice-queenn.
/ˌvʌɪsˈkwiːn/, U.S. /ˌvaɪsˈkwin/ (a) A woman ruling as the representative of a queen. (b) The wife of a viceroy. (Cf. vicereine n.)
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1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 7 His mother and three sisters..came to the Iland of Santo Domingo, with that vicequeene the Lady Mary of Toledo.
a1665 K. Digby Jrnl. Voy. to Mediterranean (1868) 77 I..sent some letters to the Vice~queene of Sardinia.
1667 London Gaz. No. 221/3 Naples, Dec. 13... The next day the Vice-Roy went incognito to visit him, which was the day after returned him by the Cardinal: who paid also his complements to the Vice Queen.
1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas I. iii. ix. 247 Heavens! what luxury and magnificence! I believed myself in the palace of a vice-queen.
1796 Ld. Nelson Let. 28 Sept. in Dispatches & Lett. (1845) II. 284 If the Enemy land near Bastia, the Vice-Queen's Yatch may be useful.
1842 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. ix. 139 Think of..the vice-queen of Portugal labouring as a bookseller's drudge.
1894 Dublin Rev. Oct. 463 A great Roman lady, who played the part of a vice-queen in Judea.
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