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Technically you're correct. But in the UK she was mostly just "the queen". The whole "Queen of England" thing comes from some USians (and others) who use "Engla

• milesrout 2y ago
  Were Capt William Hobson and James Busby Americans? (USian isn't a real term - people from America, which is a country, are called Americans.)
  • andyjohnson0 2y ago
    > USian isn't a real term - people from America, which is a country, are called Americans.) I agree its not a real term. But I was using it as a compact way to refer to people from the USA, rather than America the country. Because "American" is arguably ambiguous in that it can refer to anyone from the Americas, which is obviously not the same as America the country. tl/dr I was trying not to make the mistake I was suggesting that others have made
• dragonwriter 2y ago
  > The whole "Queen of England" thing comes from some USians (and others) who use "England" as a synonym for "the UK". Pretty sure its a common informal holdover of a correct title from pre-1707 that has also seen at least some use as a subsidiary reference in formal documents of the governments of the Kingdom of Great Britain, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and/or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland in the period after it was no longer the correct formal title (and, particularly, at least, the second of those three, as an example has been provided elsewhere in the thread.)