queen
noun
a female sovereign or monarch.
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
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Then slowly and with a short look at her: "The woman who has queened it so long in C—— society can not wish to undergo the charge of bigamy?"
From The Mayor's Wife by Anna Katharine Green