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");
Cultural depictions of Queen Victoria UK Top 40 hits. Canadian singer Leonard Cohen refers to her in a mostly non-factual way in his 1964 poem "Queen Victoria and Me", and again in the 1972 song "Queen Victoria" (based on the poem). The song was later covered by Welsh musician John Cale. In 2006, the Comics Sherpa online comic service started carrying a comic strip titled "The New Adventures of Queen Victoria" using cut-out photographs and portraits of the Queen and others. In the Japanese anime and manga series "Kuroshitsuji" ("Black Butler"); she appears as Ciel Phantomhive's primary boss. Queen Victoria's reign features in the 2003