{"id":144021,"date":"2026-02-24T18:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144021\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T18:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T18:56:08","slug":"weather-words-the-queens-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/144021\/","title":{"rendered":"Weather Words: &#8216;The Queen&#8217;s Weather&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:The Weather Channel;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.weather.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"The Weather Channel\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"348\" height=\"40\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/e3abe810-a8f6-11ef-a5f4-c5deedd454a6.png\"\/><\/a>Tue, February 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM UTC<img alt=\"Print Collector\/Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"816\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/702b04d75fecfe233f260f42a6b0b4e9.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Print Collector\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>An idiom popularized during Queen Victoria\u2019s 63-year reign in England, The Queen\u2019s Weather means pleasant weather, especially on a day when a special outdoor event is scheduled to take place. It derives from Queen Victoria\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youridioms.com\/en\/idiom\/the-queens-weather\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:reputation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">reputation<\/a> for having pleasant weather when she made public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>The first person to use the expression in print was none other than Charles Dickens, who wrote, in an account of the opening of Parliament in February 1851, \u201cThe sky was cloudless; a brilliant sun gave to it that cheering character which \u2013 from the good fortune Her Majesty experiences whenever she travels, or appears publicly \u2013 has passed into a proverb, as \u2018The Queen\u2019s Weather.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tue, February 24, 2026 at 6:25 PM UTC Print Collector\/Getty Images An idiom popularized during Queen Victoria\u2019s 63-year&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[23713,9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-144021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-charles-dickens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}