- In Seven Soldiers, the Queen of the Sheeda is called Gloriana Tenebrae as a reference to The Faerie Queene.
- Jumping off from Michael Moorcock below, Gloriana appears in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen as a No Historical Figures Were Harmed counterpart to Elizabeth I, with Prospero as her counterpart to John Dee. Prospero and her later become the main antagonists of Volume 4, attempting to take revenge on humanity for allowing magic to die out.
- Michael Moorcock’s Gloriana, or the Unfulfill’d Queen, is a satirical riff on Spenser’s work, taking Gloriana’s allegorical connection to Elizabeth I and running with it, making Gloriana a clear Alternate Universe counterpart to her.
- Elizabeth Bear’s The Promethean Age separates itself from many others by explicitly establishing that Elizabeth I and the Queen of Faeries are two separate characters, although it does also say that Spenser visited Faerie and thus his work was actually a description of fact rather than invented fantasy.
- The Mathematics of Magic, the second story of the Harold Shea series as written by L. Sprague deCamp and Fletcher Pratt is set within The Faerie Queen.
- A Blink-and-You-Miss-It reference in The Locked Tomb - all Lyctors working with their empire's enemies are given code names themed for swords from myth and legend. Cytherea the First's is "Chrysaor". Of her fellows she's the one to talk most of justice, and she was once very humane and merciful.
Literature
- The Crown (2016). In the final scene of Season One, Queen Elizabeth II is having her official portrait taken, and the royal photographer Cecil Beaton says, "Not moving, not breathing. Our very own goddess. Glorious Gloriana."
- Star Trek: Voyager. In "Spirit Folk", Michael Sullivan gives Captain Janeway a copy of the book after it's suggested by the other residents of Fair Haven (unaware that they're all holodeck characters) that she might be one of The Fair Folk.
- Fate/Grand Order: The daughter of Britomart, named after her mother, can be summoned as a Lancer.
