The Queen Mother?

[jomifl]

/The son of Robin Hood reunites his father's merry men to carry out a rescue mission at the request of the Queen Mother./

precis of a film on tv today...I had no idea that the queen mother was capable of time travel :-)

[Jackdaw33]

The queen mother in question would be Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother of Richard I and King John.

[Prudie]

There have been lots of Queen Mothers through history though, not just 'the' one. There was a queen mother in 'the man in the iron mask', made leonardo de caprio quite weepy.

[Mamyalynne]

Jill Esmond played that role in the 1946 version.

[Jackdaw33]

The term queen mother is not an official title per se, rather a description. Queen Elizabeth adopted it as part of her title to distinguish herself from her daughter. There were three queen mothers in the last century, Queens Alexandra, Mary and Elizabeth. You have to go back to 1669 to find the previous one.

[jomifl]

There has only been one 'queen mother' as the mother of the present queen invented the term. Previously the widow of a King was known as a 'dowager queen'.

[Jackdaw33]

Not so, dowager queen is the widow of a king. In addition she may also be the queen mother of the reigning sovereign. The term is much older than the last Queen Mother.

[Baldric]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_mother

[Mamyalynne]

The Bandit of Sherwood Forest isn't a documentary though but a good old fashioned romp of a film.