I am sure there may be several examples among mediatized german houses, and I've cosidered Sybilla of SCG, daughter of a ruling prince and mother of a future king.
The fact that she died before G-A VI seems irrelevant.
Had she survived him, she would never have become queen, as her husband - the one who matters for this sake - had died long time ago.
An example close to Sybilla would be her grand-mother Helena, the daughter of the ruling pr. of Waldeck and mother of the future duke of Saxe-Coburg (Sybilla's father), herself just a princess of the UK.
I supposed one could say she outranked her father and son, although she was never a sovereign's consorte.
As for Maximilian of Mexico, I disagree.
He was de jure and de factu the emperor of Mexico, recognized by most western powers such as France, UK, Prussia and of course Austria.
The USA never recognized him and I am not sure about Spain, Mexico former colonial power.
So Sophie of Bavaria was a king's daughter, the mother of 2 emperors but she never was a queen/emperess herself.
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: This example doesn't really count, for two
: reasons: 1) I meant to focus only on women
: who might have become QUEENS; otherwise, if
: one were to expand the discussion to other
: types of sovereigns, the list would be quite
: extensive (I'm sure). 2) Princess Charlotte
: herself was a dynast -- not the spouse of a
: dynast who was in line to succeed as
: sovereign, but died before he could assume
: the throne. As it was, she herself stood to
: become a sovereign, but for her renunciation
: of succession rights (thanks to political
: reasons).
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: As for the other Charlotte: I'm not sure if
: her husband qualified as a genuine emperor.
: The Mexican monarchy was a question mark,
: and Archduke Maximilian got placed on the
: throne as a puppet figure to the French
: emperor.
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: Princess Sophie of Bavaria actually wrought
: her own situation: she would have become
: empress of Austria-Hungary, had she not
: persuaded her husband to renounce his rights
: in favor of their eldest son. As it was,
: Archduke Franz Karl would have succeeded as
: emperor, but for the said renunciation.
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: That being said, had not Emperor Ferdinand
: been deposed, Sophie still would not have
: become empress, even if her husband had not
: renounced his rights. The reason is that
: she died in 1872, three years before her
: brother-in-law.
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: In this, she would have been like Princess
: Sybilla of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha later on: even
: if her husband hadn't tragically lost his
: life in a plane crash, she still would never
: have become queen of Sweden. The reason is
: that she predeceased her father-in-law (King
: Gustaf VI Adolf) by a year.
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