Fiction
In the fictional book series The Princess Diaries, the character Princess Clarisse Marie Grimaldi Renaldo is the dowager princess of the principality of Genovia. In the film versions, where Genovia is portrayed as a kingdom, Clarisse is portrayed as queen, or dowager queen.
In the fictional book series A Song of Ice and Fire, and later the HBO series Game of Thrones the character Cersei became the queen mother to king Joffrey after her husband Robert Baratheon is killed in a hunting accident.
Read more about this topic: Queen Dowager
Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today—but the core of science fiction, its essence ... has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.”
—Isaac Asimov (1920–1992)
“Being is a fiction invented by those who suffer from becoming.”
—Coleman Dowell (1925–1985)