The word 'queenly' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is an adjective, so you can use it to describe a person, their manner, or their behaviour. For example: "The Queen's bearing was regal and queenly as she strode through the crowd, waving to her subjects".
Bond seems moved by his complicated birthright, while his tough old boss M, played by a queenly Dame Judi Dench, more straightforwardly cites a great English poet as her inspiration.
So accept lunch, but plan for dinner.Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia is punctual, but has a queenly manner that many might find insufferable in a country ten (or one hundred) times bigger.
But even as Mary's representations shift to emphasise different facets of her role in Christian history, her essential qualities remain the same: faithfulness, devotion, humility, purity.Pre-Renaissance Mary is represented as queenly: ennobled, enthroned, surrounded by angels and engulfed in celestial light.
In her most queenly manner, the first lady talked of the privilege and honour of meeting military families, brave civilians and "wounded warriors" as a presidential consort playing up Mr Obama's record as a war president who brought troops home from Iraq and who killed Osama bin Laden.
The social prominence of Sarah Polk's family (her father, Joel Childress, was a planter) and her personal charm and bearing, which was sometimes described as queenly, were distinct assets for a politically ambitious lawyer.
In his art the Virgin Mary is always a tall, queenly figure wearing the conventional red robe and blue cloak, but enriched in his autograph works by sensitively rendered accessories.
They make me think of a burlesque hen-do," said Grant, whose latest feather-spray Bellini hat costs the queenly sum of £469.
After 36 months of biting her tongue, Mrs Brooks unveiled a queenly poise that was less Marie Antoinette exasperation and more Elizabeth I froideur.
They collage together plenty of components in a game of dressmaking Blackjack, where an ace like a flat, ribbed-knit front may turn to reveal a queenly flank of lingerie-inserted lace, pleated and suspended from spaghetti straps or braided with fringe.
It has been suggested by some scholars that this incident may have taken place on the death of Akhenaton with "Nibkhururiya" an approximation of his own coronation name, Neferkheperura in which case the queenly petitioner would have been Nefertiti.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet We were disposed to rebel; and there she was, perfectly positioned to rebel against, with her lacquered hair as rigid as her policies; her royal blue suits, more queenly than the Queen; and that voice, delivering its unremitting aria of certitude.
