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• s  having the rank of or resembling or befitting a queen
  queenly propriety
  clad in her queenly raiment
  Rosetti's queenly portraits of women

• She has played her share of queenly figures, but her acting essence is, emotionally speaking, plain-Jane.
• Queen Mary was what she is almost from girlhood: a woman of queenly dignity which never unbends yet never repels, and possessed of an invaluable countenance which seldom smiles .
• Sometimes my mothera woman of quite queenly hauteurwould stride in there to look for him herself, which is how she came to know Velvet.

• queenlike

Quotes

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• Sigrid Thornton in The Age
  It is hilarious. And it does discuss the kinds of queenly things we might want to lampoon, but with incredible affection and real reverence, too,says Thornton. "Part of his proposition in these things is that everyone has the same kinds of...
• Katey Sagal in Broadcast Newsroom
  Gemma is very queenly,added Sagal. "It's all about her kingdom. That's also her motivation. The grandson [born with a heart defect] is the future. It's always about survival."
• Pauline Kael in New York Times
  Some said that Greer Garson was a talented actress of ladylike grace and charm, but Pauline Kael called her "one of the most richly syllabled queenly horrors of Hollywood."