Henri M. said:
This is an absurd poll. Sorry, not meant to offend, but it still is.
First of all the Queens who are head of state should be separated from the Queens who are not.
That means Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Beatrix and Queen Margrethe II should be compared. But even then it is very difficult because, for example, Queen Beatrix has far more influence on the state and the politics than the other two Queens. Something which is not visible in haute couture and nice jewelry but in the non-glittering administrative and legislative processes which finds place inside the palace. Danmark's Queen has zero, zero, zero influence in the politics of her country. Queen Elizabeth II is in between. Thatcherism and Blairism have done their destroying work in minimizing the Queen's polical influence (or what is left from it).
And how to measure 'professionalism'? How to measure the best managed Royal Household? How to compare the three Households of these three Queens? The one Queen is relatively quite poor (Margrethe), Queen Elizabeth is awesomely rich but the money is in 'dead' properties (arts, jewels, inventories) while Queen Beatrix has given all her vast family properties in hands of independent Trusts and Foundations and matches Queen Elizabeth in fortune, with the difference that hers is invested in stock portfolios (Royal Dutch Shell, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, etc.). How to compare these?
It is even more absurd that posters come up with Queen Noor or Queen Rania as the most professional Queen. It implies management qualities, etc. which are not there at all. Queen Rania is most likely the most irrelevant Queen as the position of women in the islamic world is absolutely different than in the west. And as if the conservative Jordanese men would ever given any attention to an American (Noor) or Palestine (Rania). Really, the posters must have been blinded by the glitz and glam and do not see their reality. The same counts for Japan, in where Empress Michiko can not do any hiccup without an approval of the Imperial House Agency ('the grey men in the grey suits').
Queen Sonja, Queen Silvia, Queen Sofía, Queen Paola, etc. have no any meaning whatsoever except for being the spouse of the head of state. They have given birth to a heir and are -for the rest- an ornament of state. That is all.