Ayesha

Ayesha, fictional character, the supernatural white queen of a vanished African city in the romantic novel She (1887) by H. Rider Haggard. Ayesha ("She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed") is a beautiful and majestic woman with supernatural powers who spends centuries waiting for the reincarnation of a lover from past ages.

John Mortimer, in his Rumpole of the Bailey series of books, has Horace Rumpole refer habitually to his wife as “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed.”