All The Reasons Queen Beyonce Is Royalty

By ETCanada.com Staff. 5 Jan 2022 6:39 AM

We’re taking a look at the royal symbols in Beyonce’s life and career that make her Queen Bey.

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Royal Portrait
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Queen Bey and her king, Jay-Z, recently made headlines for Tiffany's stunning 'About Love' jewellery campaign. Here, we see Beyonce modelling the iconic Tiffany Yellow Diamond. She's the first Black woman to wear the priceless piece of historic bling. The portrait also captured the king wearing the legendary Bird on a Rock brooch, created by the famed jewellery designer Jean Schlumberger in 1956. And to kick it up a notch, the royal pair posed in front of Basquiat's 1982 work, Equals Pi. The portrait marks the artwork's first public display.
Holding Court
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Jay-Z hosted a party recently in New York to celebrate the reopening and anniversary of his 40/40 Club along with an impressive guest list, including Megan Thee Stallion, Meek Mill, Van Jones, Pusha T, Swizz Beats, Lil Uzi Vert and more. Naturally, Beyonce, who is on three different covers of 'Harper’s Bazaar'’s "Icon" issue, held court at the event. In the 'Harper’s Bazaar' interview, the 28-time Grammy Award winner revealed that new music is coming soon. “I’ve been in the studio for a year and a half. Sometimes it takes a year for me to personally search through thousands of sounds to find just the right kick or snare. One chorus can have up to 200 stacked harmonies. Still, there’s nothing like the amount of love, passion, and healing that I feel in the recording studio. After 31 years, it feels just as exciting as it did when I was nine years old. Yes, the music is coming!” she told the magazine.
The Coronation
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Some people refer to it as the 46th annual Grammy Awards, but we all know it as Beyonce’s coronation. Beyonce's debut solo album, 2003's 'Dangerously in Love', earned her more Grammys than anyone else at the 2004 ceremony, a perfect armload of five awards, including one for Best Rap/Sung Collaboration for "Crazy in Love", which featured her dearly betrothed, Jay-Z.
Young Royals '04
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Queen Bey and fellow royal Prince opened the Grammys broadcast that year with a medley performance of "Purple Rain/Baby I'm a Star/Let's Go Crazy/Crazy in Love”. Other world leader winners at Bey’s Grammy coronation included President Bill Clinton and President Mikhail Gorbachev, who won for ‘Best Spoken Word Album for Children’ alongside the legendary Sophia Loren. Sir George Harrison was awarded in the Best Pop Instrumental Performance category for "Marwa Blues”. Were any dukes honoured at this regal event? Yes. Duke Ellington & His Orchestra were awarded a Grammy Hall of Fame Award for 1957’s ‘Ellington at Newport'. And that other queen, the band Queen, won a Hall of Fame award for 1976’s “Bohemian Rhapsody”.
Put A Ring On It
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Alongside vestments, the objects of metalwork and jewellery in the regalia of the monarch were on full display at the coronation. This was years before "Single Ladies" was released by Queen Bey’s aggressive onstage alter ego, Sasha Fierce. The smash hit with the iconic video (just ask Kanye) would win three Grammy Awards in 2010.
The Divine Right
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Like her counterpart in the British monarchy, Queen Beyonce plays a ceremonial role in political events, as she did in 2008 when she performed at President Obama’s inauguration.
The divine right asserts that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving her right to rule directly from the will of God. We don’t know if Bey has that, but we know she’s irreplaceable because she told us that repeatedly in her #1 hit from 2007, “Irreplaceable”. And if you can't see by now that she's irreplaceable, you must not know about her.
But Where's Her Crown?
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Oh, you Silly Billy! Queen Bey has no crown. Crowns are for mere mortals! Bey wears a halo-halo-halo. And as per her Grammy Award-winning 2008 hit “Halo”, she can feel yours. That's one powerful royal.
Garden Parties
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Every summer in non-pandemic times, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Queen of Canada, hosts three garden parties at Buckingham Palace and one at the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Scotland. But there is absolutely no way they are as glamorous as Queen Bey’s. She’s seen here with Queen Tina The Queen Mother and lady-in-waiting/fellow Destiny’s Child, Kelly Rowland, who herself has sold 30 million solo records worldwide. You recognize this scene from ‘Black is King’, Beyoncé’s stunning 2020 visual album on Disney+.
The Queen Mum
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Affectionately known as the Queen Mum, we know that Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was the wife of King George VI and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II. We don’t know if she was a savage. But the Queen Bey Mum, Tina Knowles-Lawson? Def. “And my momma was a savage / I got this sh*t from Tina”, Beyonce raps on Megan Thee Stallion’s “Savage Remix” last year.
Destiny’s Tailor
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Sir Norman Bishop Hartnell was the Queen Mum’s tailor. On the other hand, Knowles-Lawson is a fashion designer known for her House of Deréon and Miss Tina by Tina Knowles fashion brands. She also whipped up a lot of Destiny’s Child costumes in her day.
His Queen
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In 2003, Beyonce and Jay-Z hit the top of the charts with “Crazy in Love”. In 2013, they were back with “Drunk in Love”. And in 2018, they were “Apesh*t”. Queen Elizabeth II and the late Prince Philip never ruled quite like this power couple, who wed in 2008.
The Castle
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In anticipation of her firstborn in 2012, Bey and Jay reportedly chose this $20,000 crib for the princess's room. Baby Blue Ivy Carter reportedly had at least $1.5 million spent on her baby gifts and nursery decor.
The Legacy
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At just eight years old, Beyonce's eldest of three, Blue Ivy, became the youngest winner of a BET Award when she won the BET HER Award in 2020 for her collaboration on "Brown Skin Girl", a single with her mom, WizKid, and Saint Jhn. Blue Ivy won an NAACP Image Award for the same song. And she won her first Grammy for the video. Like most royals, she has lived her life in the spotlight ever since her mom's pregnancy announcement broke Twitter.
Simba's Queen
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When Beyonce was cast in Disney’s 2019 remake of “The Lion King”, the Beyhive quickly started calling it “The Lion Queen”. She played Nala, Simba's queen, naturally. Beyonce released a 14-track album to accompany the remake. “This is sonic cinema,” she said of the record ‘The Gift’.
Who Runs The World?
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The Queen of England remains the supreme authority of the military. Bey tells her army to get in “Formation” and we listen. “God Save the Queen”, an ode to the reigning monarch, is not just the royal anthem, it’s England’s national anthem. There are dozens of hymns to Beyonce (and there are over two dozen songs that mention Blue Ivy), but perhaps none capture the feeling of being in the presence of royalty the way that Cardi B has on her 2018 Chance the Rapper collab, “Best Life”: “And that only goes to show that only God knows / I took pictures with Beyoncé, I met Mama Knowles / I'm the rose that came from the concrete and arose / I'm like gold, I'm life goals, man, I'm chosen, I'm floatin', ayy”. God save the Bey!

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