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{{quote|''"She's the kind of woman you'd expect to see as the beautiful consort to the corrupt generalissimo of a collapsing Third World country."''|'''[[Good Omens (Literature)|Good Omens]]''', on [[Lady of War|War]]}}
 
[[Power Is Sexy|Power is sexy]]. But nothing says the sexy part has to be one-sided.
 
When you rule a country, you have a choice of pretty much anyone you want to be your spouse. Not to mention that if power tends to corrupt, alongside being sexy, then [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|women are often attracted to such corruption]] anyway.
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* Rupert Friend as Prince Albert in ''[[The Young Victoria]].''
* Buttercup in ''[[The Princess Bride (Filmfilm)|The Princess Bride]]'', even if {{spoiler|she never actually got to be Queen and it was all a publicity stunt}}.
 
== Literature ==
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* Laisa in the [[Vorkosigan Saga]].
* {{spoiler|Voyaging Moon}} ("Precious Consort") in ''The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen.''
* Buttercup in ''[[The Princess Bride (Literaturenovel)|The Princess Bride]]''. Humperdinck sought out the most beautiful woman in the world for his wife, and got her.
* Scheherazade in the [[Arabian Nights (Literature)|Arabian Nights]]
* Esther in [[The Bible]].
** Also, the former queen that Esther replaced, Queen Vashti
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== Live Action TV ==
 
* In ''[[Stargate: Continuum]]'', in the changed timeline, Baal has Qet'esh as his Queen. Qet'esh being Vala with a Goa'uld in her.
** Not that she's satisfied with being [[The Starscream|just a consort]]...
** The ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' series begins with Apophis raiding Earth and Abydos, looking for beautiful women he can implant with his queen Goa'uld.
* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', when the Master takes over Earth in "The Last of the Time Lords", he has a sexy wife. {{spoiler|Who shoots him dead}}.
** And then sabotages {{spoiler|his resurrection}}.
* Anne Boleyn on ''[[The Tudors]]''.
* In ''[[Chuck]]'', Costa Gravas is a [[Banana Republic]] ruled by the Communist Premier [[Armand Assante|Allejandro Goya]] after a coup in the 70s. His wife is shown to be a hot [[Spicy Latina]]. Subverted in that they were together even before the coup. After she attempts to overthrow him due to their marriage going sour, they reconcile, and he makes her Secretary of State.
* In ''[[Black AdderBlackadder]] Back and Forth'', {{spoiler|King Edmund III}} is married to gorgeous [[Robin Hood|Maid Marian]]. Lampshaded in the ending theme: "At last, a king who looks the part/ At last, a queen who looks good naked".
* Looks like Blair is going to be one in ''[[Gossip Girl]]'', though it's anyone's guess if she'll actually go through with the marriage.
* Cersei Lannister from ''[[Game of Thrones]]''.
** Also Margaery Tyrell. Incidentally, played by [[Natalie Dormer]], who also played the aforementioned Anne Boleyn on ''The Tudors''.
* As of series 4 of ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'', Guinevere has become Arthur's Queen Consort.
 
== Video Games ==
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== Western Animation ==
 
* Three of the [[Disney Princess|Disney Princesses]]: [[Cinderella (Disney film)|Cinderella]], [[Beauty and Thethe Beast (Disney)|Belle]] and [[The Princess and Thethe Frog|Tiana]]. Male examples include [[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]], [[Tangled (Disney)|Flynn]], and [[Atlantis: theThe Lost Empire|Milo]], especially that in the case of [[Adorkable|the last one mentioned,]] rather than becoming a prince he actually goes straight to becoming a ''king'' ([[Cree Summer|the princess]] he married at the end of his film was already [[The High Queen|a queen]] by the time of their marriage).
** And of course in the case of the [[Furry Fandom|animal]] [[Incredibly Lame Pun|kingdom,]] there's also [[Robin Hood (Disney film)|Robin Hood]], [[The Lion King|Sarabi, Nala, and Kovu.]]
* [[Yamato Nadeshiko|Princess Ursa]] of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]].'' She never did get to be Fire Lady, though, since she was banished before [[Complete Monster|Fire Lord Ozai's]] coronation {{spoiler|for assassinating the previous Fire Lord and therefore putting Ozai on the throne.}}
 
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** Anne Boleyn wasn't considered beautiful by various foreign ambassadors, but she was very clever and vivacious. Katarine of Aragon, the one Henry left, was the most beautiful princess of Europe in her youth. And Anne of Cleves was described as prettier then Catharine Parr and Jane Seymour, Henry just couldn't stand her because she'd mistaken him for a servant when he visited her for the first time unannounced.
* Byzantine Emperors had a habit, during the heyday of the Empire, of picking the Empress from beauty shows. I kid you not - examples include the lovely and talented Empress Theodora, wife to Emperor Justinian I (she started her adult life as a prostitute), and several subsequent Empress-Consorts.
** That custom was also known among many oriental countries. It sounds more appropriate for polygamy where the husband doesn't have to worry about whether he actually ''likes'' his wife as a person instead of as [[Am I Just a Toy Toto You?|a hobby]] because he can always try another wife for that purpose.
* [[Mary of Scotland|Mary Queen of Scots]], during her brief stint as Queen-Consort of France.
* Subverted by Charles, Prince of Wales who chose Camilla Parker-Bowles over Princess Diana.
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