queenship

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The rank, status, position, or dignity of a queen.

   “Near-synonym: queenliness”

   “In the home-circle and among her companions, Charlotte lays aside her queenship and becomes a gentle Lottie.”

   “Elizabeth's queenship elicited her subjects' fantasies and fears that she was, as Shakespeare's Cleopatra puts it, “no more but e'en a woman,” and that a woman ruling over men would necessarily subject her entire realm to unbridled feminine sexual desire.”