21. Queen Dowager Christina took mother and child into her household and acknowledged the marriage.22. It looks like a Queen mother is a special case of a Queen Dowager . 23. Sometime in the 1550s, Anna was appointed queen dowager Catherine. 24. She was a lady-in-waiting to Queen Dowager Christina of Holstein-Gottorp. 25. The queen dowager passed a window at the Stockholm Palace, followed by Ebba Brahe. 26. As queen dowager , Elisabeth initially did not agree to surrender the reins of power. 27. She continued in her position also after Margherita became a queen dowager in 1900. 28. As Queen Dowager of Portugal, Eleanor returned to the court of Charles in Spain. 29. On 9 June the son had been baptized carried by Queen Dowager Catherine Stenbock. 30. From 1687, she served as Mistress of the Robes to the queen dowager Hedvig Eleonora.
