[f. QUEEN sb. + -ITE.] One of the partisans of a queen, esp. of Queen Caroline against George IV., or of Queen Isabella of Spain against Don Carlos.
1820. J. Jekyll, Corr., iii. (1894), 106. Fourteen at table … mixed of Queenites and Anti-Queenites.
1837. Major Richardson, Brit. Legion, v. (ed. 2), 132. The inhabitants of Vitoria are infinitely more Carlists than Queenites.
1859. Dk. Buckingham, Mem. Geo. IV., I. 87. Theodore Hook … made the respectable portion of the Queenites heartily ashamed of their cause.
attrib. 1839. Thackeray, Major Gahagan, iii. A troop of the Queenite lancers [in Spain].
