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Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
grand duchess consort of Luxembourg (born 1956)
Arsinoe I
Egyptian queen consort
Princess Joséphine-Charlotte of Belgium
Grand Duchess Consort of Luxembourg (1964-2000)
Infanta Marie Anne of Portugal
Grand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)
Hetepheres I
Queen of Egypt during the 4th dynasty
Khentkaus I
Queen of Ancient Egypt during the 4th dynasty
Princess Hélène of Orléans
Princess of France
Moza bint Nasser Al Missned
wife of Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani (born 1959)
Khentkaus II
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau
Duchess of Nassau, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (1833–1916)
Mandane of Media
princess of Media and Queen consort of Cambyses I of Anshan and mother of Cyrus the Great
Amytis of Media
daughter or granddaughter of the king Cyaxares, and the wife of Nebuchadnezzar II
Princess Anna of Prussia
Prussian princess
Khentakawess III
ancient Egyptian queen
Henutsen
Henutsen is the name of an ancient Egyptian queen consort who lived during the 4th dynasty of the Old Kingdom Period. She was the second or third wife of pharaoh Khufu and most possibly buried at Giza.
Neferu III
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Meritites I
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Glaphyra
thumb|Glaphyra from Promptuarium Iconum Insigniorum|Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum Glaphyra (; ) was an Anatolian princess from Cappadocia, and a Queen of Mauretania by her second marriage to King Juba II of Mauretania. She was related to the Herodian dynasty by her first and third marriage, to Alexander, son of Herod and Herod Archelaus, respectively.
Arsinoe of Macedon
mother of Ptolemy I Soter
Claude Françoise de Lorraine
Princess of Lorraine
Iah
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Menen Asfaw
Ethiopian Empress Consort (1891-1962)
Khamerernebty I
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Princess Marie of the Netherlands
daughter of Prince Frederick of the Netherlands (1841–1910)
Neith
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Berenice
daughter of Salome I and Aristobulus IV
Khenthap
Khenthap (also written Khenet-Hapi) was a possible queen of Ancient Egypt. She is said to have lived during the 1st Dynasty. Her historical figure is very obscure, since there are no contemporary sources for her name. She appears only once in a much later inscription.
Khenemetneferhedjet I
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Helena
daughter of Alypius and Byzantine empress
Ankhesenpepi I
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Sesheshet
Sesheshet, occasionally known as Sesh, was the mother of King Teti, the first and founding king of the Sixth Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. She was instrumental in enabling her son to gain the throne and reconciling two warring factions of the royal family.
Tokugawa Masako
Japanese empress. daughter of Tokugawa Hidetada
Itta of Metz
Frankish Saint
Neferu I
Egyptian queen consort
Beatrice of Sicily, Latin Empress
Empress of Latin Constantinople
Kōmyō
consort empress of Japan
Amina Ilhami
Egyptian princess (1858-1931)
Betrest
Betrest (also read as Batyires, and Batires) was a queen of Ancient Egypt. She lived during the First Dynasty.
Tem
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Malthace
Malthace () was a Samaritan woman who lived in the latter half of the 1st century BC. She was one of the wives of Herod the Great and the mother by Herod of Herod Antipas, Archelaus, and a daughter, Olympias. She died in 4 BC at Rome, while her sons Archelaus and Antipas were disputing the will of their father before the emperor Augustus.
Cleopatra of Jerusalem
fifth wife of Herod the Great
Neferhetepes
ancient Egyptian queen consort
Meretnebty
Meretnebty () was a queen consort of Egypt as a wife of king Sahure. She lived during the 5th Dynasty and was named after Two Ladies, a pair of Egyptian goddesses who protected the king.
Neferitatjenen
Neferitatjenen was the wife of Amenemhat I, the king of the 12th Dynasty in ancient Egypt, and the mother of Senusret I. The documentation of her relationships is preserved on a statuette depicting her son.
Shafaq Nur Hanimefendi
fourth wife of khedive Ismail Pasha
Hephzibah
Hephzibah or Hepzibah ( or ; ) is a minor figure in the Books of Kings in the Hebrew Bible. She was the wife of Hezekiah, king of Judah (reigned 715 and 686 BCE), and the mother of Manasseh of Judah (reigned 687–643 BCE).
Nitzevet
Nitzevet bat Adael ( Nīṣṣeḇeṯ baṯ ʿAḏʾēl lit. Nitzevet daughter of Adael) is, according to Hanan bar Rava, the mother of David. According to the Bible, her husband, Jesse, had at least nine children: David, Eliab, Abinadab, Shimma, Nethaneel, Raddai, Ozem, Zeruiah, and Abigail.
Néféroukait
thumb|Stela of Rediukhnum, steward of Neferukayet (Cairo 20543)
Kekāuluohi
Miriam Auhea Kalani Kui Kawakiu o Kekāuluohi Kealiʻiuhiwaihanau o Kalani Makahonua Ahilapalapa Kai Wikapu o Kaleilei a Kalakua also known as Kaʻahumanu III (February 27, 1794 – June 7, 1845), was Kuhina Nui of the Kingdom of Hawaii, a queen consort of both Kamehameha I and Kamehameha II, and mother of Lunalilo. In ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi (Native Hawaiian language), Kekāuluohi means; "the vigorously growing vine". She adopted her secondary name Auhea, meaning Where, oh where, in memory of the death of Kamehameha I.
Amina Hanim
Consort of Muhammad Ali of Egypt (c. 1770 – 1824)
Kīnaʻu
Princess Kalani Ahumanu i Kaliko o Iwi Kauhipua o Kīnau, also known as Elizabeth Kīnau ( – April 4, 1839) was Kuhina Nui of the Kingdom of Hawaii as Kaahumanu II, queen regent and dowager queen.
Hoshiyar Qadin
Consort of Ibrahim Pasha and Walida of Khedive Isma'il
Mazoon bint Ahmad Al Mashani
Omani royal
Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi
Emirati activist
Hessa bint Salman Al Khalifa
Bahraini Queen consort
Al-Sayyida al-Mu'iziyya
Main consort of Al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah
Keohokālole
Analea Keohokālole (c. 1816–1869) was a Hawaiian chiefess and matriarch of the House of Kalākaua that ruled the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi from 1874 to 1893. Her Hawaiian name Keohokālole means "the straight hair of her own father's tresses" and was given to her at birth by Queen Kaʻahumanu.
Shokooh al-Saltanah
Iranian Qajar princess
Taj al-Mulouk Khanoum Umm al-Khakan
Royal consort
Bamba Qadin
Walida Pasha of Egypt (died 1871)