Queen dowager queen mother or a queen dowager. For example, the mother of Queen Victoria of United Kingdom, Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld, was never a queen dowager because her husband, Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent, had never been king. Similarly, whilst being the mothers of monarchs, both Augusta of Saxe-Gotha and Srinagarindra of Thailand were not styled queen dowager because their respective husbands, Frederick, Prince of Wales and Mahidol Adulyadej, Prince of Songkla, were never kings. Instead, Augusta held the title of "Dowager Princess of Wales" (a precedent was Henry VII of England's mother, Lady Margaret Beaufort, titled "My Lady the King's Mother");
SS Queen Victoria (1887) with RMS "Prince of Wales" for the sum of £155,000 (equivalent to £ in ) Length 330'; beam 39'1"; depth 15'2". "Queen Victoria" had a registered tonnage of , was certified to carry 1546 passengers and had a crew complement of 69. Both sisters were fitted with compound engines developing at 40.5 r.p.m., with a boiler steam pressure of . Both the "Queen Victoria" and "Prince of Wales" engines were referred to as a "coupled two crankshaft engine". The crankshaft was connected at the crank by a drag link, the object of which was to get the two cranks at