queen-in-parliament

noun

variants or Queen-in-Parliament

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plural queens-in-parliament or Queens-in-Parliament

: the collective legal entity composed of the British monarch and the two houses of parliament acting together that constitutes the supreme legislative authority of the United Kingdom

—used when the British monarch is a queen

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